Support for file sharing over SMB/NFS

[Rik Hemsley]

#if David Faure
> On Wednesday 17 April 2002 17:43, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:57:57PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > The actual GUI is composed of
> > > * a new tab for the properties dialog (konqueror/kdesktop...), for
> > > directories to let a user share or remove the sharing for a directory
> > > under his $HOME (yes, that's currently the only place allowed for
> > > sharing dirs...) The tab has a message when sharing is disabled for
> > > this user, or when the directory isn't in $HOME.
> >
> > 2 things; Rick thought that the dir $HOME should not be shared; only
> > subdirs.
>
> Why not? If I have an account on a machine, for work purposes only, and I
> share work with others?

Simple, but effective, security helper. ~ contains passwords, .ssh, etc.
Of course, users can put important files anywhere, I just try to help
them out.

Samba has authentication, so it's not quite as silly to share ~.

Rik