Re: Restore 'Sharing Options' menu
Firstly, do NOT install a package called swat. Some of the help advice on the Samba configuration says to install that package. swat is out-of-date and Synaptic in the description says swat can lock some LAN users out forever from the Samba server.
I restored my Context-menu 'Sharing Options' by using Synaptic, searching for Samba and noting a package called 'natulius-share'. I installed that and package 'gadmin-samba'. Synaptic also wanted to install 'menu'.
The restored menu item Sharing Option is out of order in comparison to a fresh-install Oneiric after I re-installed natilus-share. This menu-item is vital to the set-up of Samba working with your network clients. That is the vision of how Samba will interface with Oneiric.
Because I had glade, py-samba, gtk, system-config-samba already installed due to all the other advice trying to get Samba going, the GTK gui works like it should. It fires up as a logon user from a menu item 'Samba', In the background it writes the sudo (root) configuration changes.
So, confusion there. The Natilus menu item, its label is 'Samba', but it fires up the gadmin-samba GUI. Samba and its config file are independent of gadmin-samba. Samba is a lib, not a GUI.
I'll leave this post open to put my thinking into practice. (The rest of our computers are cold at the moment.) I'll see if I can share and if so, close this link as solved.
Please give me any comments...
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