The Thunar Shares Plugin (thunar-shares-plugin) allows you to quickly share a folder using Samba from Thunar (the XFCE file manager) without requiring root access.
For detailed information on the minimum required versions, check the configure.ac.in file.
(For information about how to setup Samba correctly see bellow)
If you downloaded a source tarball from the download page, you can run:
./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable prefix thunarx-1)
in order to configure the plugin. If you fetched the source from SVN, you have to use this command:
./autogen.sh --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable prefix thunarx-1)
After that you should be able to build and install the plugin, using the following commands (remember you have to be root for that!):
make && make install
If your are using (X)ubuntu 8.04 or above just check your User privileges after install the plugin. Also install samba and libpam-smbpass.
For non (X)ubuntu users the Samba setup is:
export USERSHARES_DIR="/var/lib/samba/usershares" export USERSHARES_GROUP="sambashare" mkdir -p ${USERSHARES_DIR} groupadd ${USERSHARES_GROUP} chown root:${USERSHARES_GROUP} ${USERSHARES_DIR} chmod 01770 ${USERSHARES_DIR}
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP security = share usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershares usershare max shares = 100 usershare allow guests = yes usershare owner only = yes
usermod -a -G ${USERSHARES_GROUP} your_username
/etc/init.d/samba restart