shared folder problems

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Neary wrote:

> Or indeed that GUI, if it's as good as or better than the Gnome one.
> Didn't intend to cause a 'my environment is better than your environment'
> conversation, it's just that Gnome is the Ubuntu default. I'm sure if XFCE
> has a 'shares-admin'-a-like GUI, then that's perfectly usable too.

LOL.  I wasn't trying to suggest my environment is better than yours
either - I'm simply a firm believer in using configuration tools
(preferably GUI) rather than editing anything by hand.  Anybody who tells
me he can do a better job, and faster, editing by hand is conveniently
forgetting all the times he entered a typo and spent hours trying to figure
out why an app wouldn't start!

> Actually, editing the file by hand would be worse anyway because I think
> you have to restart Samba to get it to see the new configuration. Using
> the GUI, IIRC, shares were made available straight away. IANA Memory King,
> but I think I have that right.

I'm fairly sure it has to restart Samba to do that, but it takes it out of
your hands, anyway.
-- 
derek