Re: an extension to share folder with nautilus

[Sebastien Estienne <sebastien estienne gmail com>]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:03:41 +0200, Aschwin van der Woude
<aschwin van der woude movial fi> wrote:
> 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.
I thought about integrating it with shares-admin from gnome system
tools because it already have the functionnality to display all folder
being shared on the system. And as far as i looked in the code, it
would be fairly trivial to integrate it.

But i'm always open to suggestions :)

> 
> -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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