still there in 13.04
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735072
Title:
The hostname proposed by installer is too long for file sharing to
work correctly.
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browsing seems to work by default in 13.04
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are you referring to root share or usershare? root shares work properly
and they are meant to be done by fiddling with smb.conf
user share via nautilus does not work properly
private shares with password (its automatically your login password)
work.
public (guest) shares in the home directory do
Via nautilus is usershare. Via smb.conf is root share. Try to set permissions
of home to 755 and make a share /home/public
If you make a public share samba uses nobody/other as user to change to that
directory. Its the last digit of dir permissions that is used. You can see that
if you run sam