Thunar Shares 0.16

Thunar Shares is a Thunar (Xfce file manager) extension to share files using Samba. The backend is based in nautilus-shares plugin.

Requirements:

· GTK+ version 2.12.x
· Thunar

Compile

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Build from SVN

$ svn co http://thunar-shares.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ thunar-shares
$ cd thunar-shares
$ sh autogen.sh
$ make
$ make install

Setup Samba

· A quick and easy wait to have it running (must be done as root):

export USERSHARES_DIR="/var/lib/samba/usershare"
export USERSHARES_GROUP="samba"

mkdir -p ${USERSHARES_DIR}
groupadd ${USERSHARES_GROUP}
chown root:${USERSHARES_GROUP} ${USERSHARES_DIR}
chmod 01770 ${USERSHARES_DIR}

· Use the following /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP ; you can change to your own workgroup
security = share

usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershare
usershare max shares = 100
usershare allow guests = yes
usershare owner only = yes

· Add the samba group to your user (replace your_username by your login):

usermod -a -G ${USERSHARES_GROUP} your_username

What's New in This Release:

· libshares API changes to help the packaging task.
· Internationalization fixes.
· Added some translations.



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