How-To install thunar-shares-plugin in xfce 4.10/4.12

[dentaku65]

I really like to have in my box a simply way to share/unshare directories and have control on it directly in Thunar; I'm using Quantal Xubuntu.
Even if is possible to use a "custom actions" in order to share/unshare like stated here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1845244&p=11505823#post11505823 I don't like this kind of option.

Since that Xfce have in xfce-goodies a plugin to use samba inside Thunar http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin but seems that is not mantained anymore (or simply does not works), here a way to install it from the source.

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev xfce4-dev-tools libgtk2.0-dev libthunarx-2-dev libthunar-vfs-1-dev build-essential samba

Create a working directory and get the source:

mkdir $HOME/thunar_plugin

cd $HOME/thunar_plugin

wget http://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin/0.2/thunar-shares-plugin-0.2.0.tar.gz

tar xvzf thunar-shares-plugin-0.2.0.tar.gz

cd thunar-shares-plugin-0.2.0

Patch the source and compile/install:

sed -i "s|\(thunarx-\)1|\12|g" configure{,.in} thunar-plugin/Makefile.{am,in}

sed -i "s|get_vfs_info|get_file_info|" libshares/libshares-util.c

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-static=no

make

sudo make install

Configure Samba (thanks to ArchLinux wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba#Creating_user_share_path):

sudo -s

export USERSHARES_DIR="/var/lib/samba/usershares"

export USERSHARES_GROUP="sambashare"

mkdir -p ${USERSHARES_DIR}

groupadd ${USERSHARES_GROUP}

chown root:${USERSHARES_GROUP} ${USERSHARES_DIR}

chmod 01770 ${USERSHARES_DIR}

Then edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and under [global] section paste the following and save:

usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershares
usershare max shares = 100
usershare allow guests = yes
usershare owner only = False

Add your user to the Samba group replacing "your_username":

usermod -a -G ${USERSHARES_GROUP} your_username

Reboot. Done!
You should have the Share tab inside the Thunar Properties of a directory

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