How to Setup File Sharing

[undoIT]

I am trying to setup a folder in Kubuntu 9.10 to be shared over the network. I right-click the folder, then go to Properties. Then, on the Share tab it says:

You need to be authorized to share folders.

I click Configure File Sharing button. A prompt comes up for my password. I enter password and then nothing happens. I click Configure File Sharing button again and nothing happens.

[skunk]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

Do you have the package "kdenetwork-filesharing" installed?

[vinnywright]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

you will also nead the samba and or NFS packages.

VINNY

[sithlord48]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

i found a decent how to @ the ubuntu forums, most of it should apply directly to kubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605

[undoIT]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

i found a decent how to @ the ubuntu forums, most of it should apply directly to kubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605

Thank you for the link, but those instructions look way more complicated than it needs to be for simple file sharing.

After installing kdenetwork-filesharing and samba, everything is working as expected.

Perhaps, for the sake of user-friendliness, there should be a prompt that offers installing these packages (like the multimedia restricted extras suggestion) when a user attempts to enable file sharing for a folder. Otherwise, it just seems to be broken.

[Ole Juul]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

If you phrase it right, perhaps it could perhaps fit under "One Hundred Paper Cuts" https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts

[undoIT]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

If you phrase it right, perhaps it could perhaps fit under "One Hundred Paper Cuts" https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts

Aha. Thanks! I've got plenty of papercuts to report.

I feel motivated to help *buntu (and Linux in general) improve but I didn't know that a resource like this was set up so that something might actually be accomplished by making these kind of suggestions.

Btw, I got my mother up and running with Kubuntu today (she has been using Ubuntu for the past 6 months). So far she is loving the shiny new computer

[skunk]

Re: How to Setup File Sharing

After installing kdenetwork-filesharing and samba, everything is working as expected.

Perhaps, for the sake of user-friendliness, there should be a prompt that offers installing these packages (like the multimedia restricted extras suggestion) when a user attempts to enable file sharing for a folder. Otherwise, it just seems to be broken.

I agree. When I found this problem I filed it under YAPE (yet another packaging error)