[Bug 490380] Re: Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users

2009-12-07 Thread Fabio Bossi
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. -- Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490380 You received this bug notification

[Bug 490380] Re: Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users

2009-12-07 Thread Thierry Carrez
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

[Bug 490380] Re: Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users

2009-12-07 Thread Fabio Bossi
You're right, sorry. However, they still can't write, even though the GUI option to allow writing was checked. -- Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490380 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 490380] Re: Please remove the accept guests option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users

2009-12-07 Thread Thierry Carrez
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