Every time I set up a new Ubuntu I have problems getting Samba to work.
I now have it working, but my process seems to have little to do with the documentation.

1. I run shares-admin, which offers to install NFS & SMB.
2. shares-admin Shared Folders only offers NFS not SMB, although the General Properties tab allows me to set Workgroup
3. At this stage I give up and edit smb.conf
4. Windows can now see the share, but will not let me log on.
5. I have to run smbpasswd to change the user password.
6. Nautilus does not show the folders as shared.


Why does shares-admin offer SMB if it can't do anything with it?
Surely sharing home directories is so common that it should have an easier way of setting than editing smb.conf