[Bug 910098] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 cannot create a network share on a drive that needs to be mounted

[Serge Hallyn]

Thanks for taking the time to submit this bug.

In order to have your system provide some information which will help us
reproduce and debug, could you please run

   apport-collect 910098

Which folder were you trying to share?

If you run

   net usershare add afolder /the/folder/you/wanted/to/share

does that provide a failure?  Are there any entries under
/var/lib/samba/usershares?

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Ubuntu 11.10 cannot create a network share on a drive that needs to be
  mounted

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When right clicking on a folder and opening the 'Sharing' tab in the
  'Properties' window, I am able to configure a network share on a
  mounted drive using the ext4 file-system, however when I try to find
  the share in the network it says: "Unable to mount location".

  After some research I noticed the 'smb.conf' file did not include the mounted drive (see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man5/smb.conf.5.html).
  So I added it manually and restarted the Samba service, now everything works like a charm.

  It would be nice if Ubuntu did this automatically, since a non-power
  user would not be able to figure this out.

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