Re: an extension to share folder with nautilus

[Aschwin van der Woude <aschwin van der woude movial fi>]

Good stuff!
Perhaps it would be nice if such shares show up in "Computer", "Places"
or "Network", so it is easy to see all the folders being shared.

-A.

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 02:54 +0100, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> hello i wrote a nautilus extension to share folder, for the moment
> it's samba only but could easily be extended to nfs and webdav
> 
> - all user can share any folder they own (no need for root privilege)
> - no need to patch samba
> - only one line to add in smb.conf (could be 0)
> - designed to be secured (only selected directived are allowed, a list
> of forbidden sharename: global, homes, etc...)
> - could (will?) be easily integrated will gst : shared-admin
> - use dbus
> 
> screenshot for the impatient:
> http://gentoo.ovibes.net/nautilus-share/nautilus-share.jpg
> 
> source and README/INSTALL <- need to READ!!:
> http://gentoo.ovibes.net/nautilus-share/
> 
> tested on ubuntu (debian folder to build a package) and on gentoo
> let me explain how it works:
> -I wrote a nautilus extensions that allow users to shares any of there
> folder with a right  click and choose a sharename and ro/rw
> - for the moment it only works with samba
> -to solve the problem of requiring root access i used dbus, so my
> nautilus extensions discuss with a deamon throught dbus to modify a
> file (in samba format) that is included by smb.conf (include =
> /etc/samba/smbshared.conf)
> - the deamon check the security: it checks that the user owns the
> folder he wants to share and it's check that the user doesn't use a
> forbidden sharename and only used authorized directives.
> -i try to make it easy to support more sharing protocol (nfs, webdav,
> etc) both in the nautilus-extensions and in the deamons.
> - the good thing about using dbus are that you don't need root
> privileges and if some kde guys want to have the functionnality, they
> only need to rewrite the gui part(the nautilus extensions equivalent)
> 
> feedback is welcome :)
> -- 
> Sebastien Estienne
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