GShare

[ssam]

http://yimports.com/~cpinto/projects/gnome/gshare



Currently file sharing in Linux sucks. If you don’t know much about setting up a Samba share you’re pretty much stuck.

What GShare does is to create a special folder at the user’s home directory (~/Shared Files) and use that as an FTP root for the built-in FTP server.

The FTP service is then advertised on the network through Avahi and the share shows up in Nautilus Network Server browser of another computer.


anyone tried it yet?

[Adrenal]

I don't think breezy has a new enough version of mono. Or, at the very least, my skill is not enough to get it going(of course, I am partially asleep at the moment). Seems cool, would love a deb though

[gatekeeper]

http://ubuntuguide.org/#installsamba

Would it just be easier to use Samba that have all that overhead?

[ringe]

No, Samba sucks for Linux file sharing. It's certainly a very good product, but the lack of POSIX permissions is just annoying.

[ssam]

there are now ubuntu .deb packages at http://yimports.com/~cpinto/projects/gnome/gshare

just download, and install by double clicking.

then go to system -> preferences -> file sharing to configure it.

[airtonix]

mmmm needs avahi....isnt that insecure?

[reacocard]

mmmm needs avahi....isnt that insecure?

Not really. I think Feisty has Avahi by default anyway.