Simple File Sharing over a Home Network

[shjoity]

When you get it to work, take care not to check the 'other' people checkbox when you try to share your home folder
What will happen is:

-Nautilus will ask you to change permissions
-next time you start X gdm disallows you to login as other people can 'write' to your home directory
-super newbie friendly recovery console happy time ensues.

I managed to lock myself out of gnome this way. And if it were not for a secondary computer where I asked for help in the forums it would have been the end of my fun with Ubuntu

you can change these security settings i believe(i have not tried) in admin-->login, the last tab

[tigerg]

I am pretty well fed-up with this error. I can't get Ubuntu to share the damn files throught Nautilus. I get the 255 error whenever I use the share tab on any disk or folder. What a useless thing it is to get a numeric error without a link to a help file or even a clue. I have searched these forums for help and it ain't helpin.

[Morbius1]

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied
You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share.

You talking about that error?

If you do a:

ls -dl /var/lib/samba/usershares

You should find out:

drwxrwx--T 2 root sambashare 4096 2012-01-11 17:49 /var/lib/samba/usershares

Now run the following command:

id

You should see that you either are or are not a member of the sambashare group.

If you are not then add yourself:

sudo gpasswd -a your-user-name sambashare

Then logout ( not reboot ) and login again and then try to share a folder.

Usershare has what I believe to be the very best error messages in all of software-dom.