[dolphin] [Bug 443588] New: [kdenetwork-filesharing] Provide more guidance to new users

[Daniel]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443588

            Bug ID: 443588
           Summary: [kdenetwork-filesharing] Provide more guidance to new
                    users
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: code at daniel.priv.no
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

I just installed kdenetwork-filesharingon Fedora 34, right-clicked on a folder
in Dolphin, and clicked on the new Share tab. There I get an error message
saying:

“You appear to not have sufficient permissions to manage Samba user shares.”

The first thing I tried troubleshooting is whether the smb.service was running.
It wasn’t. There should probably be a specific error message for that, as it
should be easy to detect and provide guidance. Maybe even a button to elevate
permissions and start and enable the service.

I still get the same error in Dolphin, though. I guess it needs me to do some
more setup, but I don’t know what it expects me to do. As a user faced with
this message, there’s no clear path forward to get things working.

There should be more details and a help link on this screen.

Some searching reveals there’s a related YaST2 settings panel in OpenSUSE, but
other distro’s don’t appear to have anything similar.

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