As Carasof's reply details, that message is now displayed in the Sharing
Options dialog, and following it's instructions allows you to share the
folder successfully.

However, this is not a very user-friendly way of allowing NTFS drive
sharing, would shipping the default smb.conf with "usershare onwer only
= false" be a better long term solution?

A better method would simply be a confirmation box that popped up when
sharing an NTFS folder that explained the security risks of enabling
this setting, asking for confirmation, and then doing the smb.conf
change automatically. Every time I have to go into a config file when
using Ubuntu, I feel it has somehow let me down.

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"Share Folder" in right-click menu does not share ntfs drive folders
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175689
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