Re: gnome-user-share

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 11/09/04 09:35, Carlos Garnacho wrote:

> > I realize there is a need for a way for sysadmin style users to easily
> > set up "global shares", but i'm personally not very interested in this.
> >    
>
> hmmm, sharing things in windows networks is "sysadmin stuff"? In my
> really humble opinion, we should provide some way to make gnome network
> friendly under as many circumstances as possible, in any work I've been
> before (and in any home with >2 computers with windows) there was a
> windows networking, and I don't expect this to change anytime soon.
>  
Note that on modern versions of Windows (ie. not Win9x), you need 
administrator privileges in order to set up file and print sharing, so 
I'd say there is nothing wrong with classing it as a sysadmin task.  
This doesn't mean that it should be an obscure or difficult task to perform.

James.

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