I reopened the bug by my own initiative: please don't be angry about it
:) . I won't do that again if you keep your opinion.
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Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates
confusion for new users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490380
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About New users who want to share files between their Ubuntu and
Windows PC and create a guest-enabled share will be outraged when they
find out that they cannot read their files
They should be able to read their files. Looking at comment 7 above:
-rwxr--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 0 2009-12-05 09:31
You're right, sorry. However, they still can't write, even though the
GUI option to allow writing was checked.
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Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates
confusion for new users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490380
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Well, they can write to the directory. The thing they cannot do is write
to the file that was created through the share (though they can do that
by accessing the share locally through SMB !).
I don't think that's confusing, it's a decent default security trade-off, and
is easily toggled off.
The