Share problem

[Dan Farrell]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:10:47 -0600
Willis Taylor <gods-servant at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have my computers sharing my internet through my new Syslink Hub
> and in order to share files I now need to allow sharing of folders
> thru NFS and with the sharing option enabled I receive the following
> messages.
> 
> I'm lost.
> 
> Nautilus needs to add some permissions to your folder "Downloads" in 
> order to share it
> -----------------------------------------------
> The folder "Downloads" needs the following extra permissions for
> sharing to work:
>   - write permission by others
> Do you want Nautilus to add these permissions to the folder
> automatically? --------------------------------------------
> 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: usershares are 
> currently disabled

If I may suggest it, manual configuration of an NFS server (or if you
will, a 'file share'), is pretty simple.  In fact, here's a little
howto that appears to be just what you need:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-ubuntu-nfs-server-configuration-howto/