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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:46:51PM -0000, Ricardo Graça wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken this only affects non-Administrator user accounts.
> It is happening on my fresh installation of 13.10.

Well, I don't think anything can be done from the perspective of
non-administrator user accounts.

As a non-administrative user, you're not able to add yourself to sambashare, and
hence nautilus-share can't take care of this for you under your own account.
This means the error message is valid, and you do need to ask your system's
administrator to add you to sambashare.

The only usecase that would be valid for fixing in this case would be an
administrative user who happens to not be in the sambashare group -- then
nautilus-share could perhaps invoke a privileged helper through policykit to
help the user add him/herself into the sambashare group.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995406

Title:
  User not added to group sambashare:  "You do not have permission to
  create a usershare."

Status in nautilus-share package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I tried to share a folder and was prompted to install samba, which I accepted. I did not install pam-smbpass as I don't need it. I was prompted to log out and in again, which I did. Now I get this when creating a share:
  ---
  '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.
  ---
  It looks like the user was not added to the group sambashare at all (which script is supposed to do this? Where is the log file?).

  Manually running
  # sudo usermod -a -G sambashare jakob
  fixes the issue.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: nautilus-share 0.7.3-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun May  6 11:37:08 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
  SourcePackage: nautilus-share
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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