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Bug 791320 - sharing: File Sharing feature duplicates Nautilus feature
sharing: File Sharing feature duplicates Nautilus feature
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Sharing
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-06 19:57 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2018-02-12 23:04 UTC
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2017-12-06 19:57:27 UTC 
Ubuntu does not ship mod-dnssd by default (required for gnome-user-share). When I proposed changing that in https://launchpad.net/bugs/1731065 I got asked several questions so I'm forwarding the biggest one here.

The GNOME Settings > Sharing > File Sharing feature duplicates a Nautilus feature. Right click on a folder in Nautilus and select Network File Sharing. This works for any folder, not just ~/Public. The gnome-user-share feature uses WebDAV. The different nautilus feature uses Samba.

I think we really ought to pick just one.

But the comment on the Ubuntu bug went further, suggesting we use cloud-based file sharing instead of much-harder-to-secure local file sharing.

mod-dnssd is unmaintained, without a release since 2009.
http://git.0pointer.net/mod_dnssd.git/log
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2018-02-12 23:04:03 UTC 
(In reply to Jeremy Bicha from comment #0)
> Ubuntu does not ship mod-dnssd by default (required for gnome-user-share).
> When I proposed changing that in https://launchpad.net/bugs/1731065 I got
> asked several questions so I'm forwarding the biggest one here.
> 
> The GNOME Settings > Sharing > File Sharing feature duplicates a Nautilus
> feature. Right click on a folder in Nautilus and select Network File
> Sharing.

This doesn't exist in upstream nautilus. As mentioned on IRC, this seems to be a "nautilus-share" extension to nautilus which doesn't have a Bugzilla on gnome.org. Closing as it doesn't clash upstream.