setting up public share with the public share under Preferences/Public Share

[rikona]

Hello Lucio,

Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 9:56:34 PM, Lucio wrote:

LMN> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:06 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 09/21/2010 08:53 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/21/2010 03:22 PM, Scott Berry wrote:
>>>> > What packages do I need to install for the public share to work on a
>>>> > network?  Also can I put a link for an external drive in that folder?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> You should not need to install packages (at least not explicitly).
>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem so,
>>>
>>
>> Nope:
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy apache2.2-bin
>> apache2.2-bin:
>>  Installed: (none)
>>  Candidate: 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2
>>  Version table:
>>     2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2 0
>>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-proposed/main
>> Packages
>>     2.2.14-5ubuntu8 0
>>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy libapache2-mod-dnssd
>> libapache2-mod-dnssd:
>>  Installed: (none)
>>  Candidate: 0.6-2
>>  Version table:
>>     0.6-2 0
>>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy samba
>> samba:
>>  Installed: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
>>  Candidate: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
>>  Version table:
>>  *** 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2 0
>>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
>>        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
>>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>     2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3 0
>>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main

LMN> NoOp,

LMN> Exactly the same here, but still everything (but Bluetooth) shaded
LMN> when trying to enable Personal File Sharing. Reinstalled
LMN> gnome-user-share, log-out and in, to no avail. There's something
LMN> missing on my brand new 10.04.1 AMD64 install. So says the message:
LMN> "This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not
LMN> installed on your system", but then, what exactly is missing if not
LMN> Apache? (A reboot like Rikona suggested?)

Tried a reboot - didn't help.

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 rikona