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Introduction

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.

Screenshots

Thunar Share Tab Dialog
Thunar Share Tab Dialog Window

The share editor can be found in the file properties dialog (Share page).

Required Packages

For detailed information on the minimum required versions, check the configure.ac file.

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Building and Installing

(For information about how to setup Samba correctly see below)

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 git, 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

Samba Setup

If your are using (X)ubuntu 8.04 or later, check your User privileges after installing the plugin. Also install the samba and libpam-smbpass packages.

For non (X)ubuntu users, the Samba setup is as follows:

Create a group (must be done as root)

  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}

Use the following /etc/samba/smb.conf (or something similar)

  [global]
  workgroup = WORKGROUP
  security = share
  usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershares
  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

Restart Samba daemons

sysvinit: 

  /etc/init.d/samba restart

systemd: 

  systemctl restart smbd

Logout and login your user (your_username)

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Latest Release

  • thunar-shares-plugin 0.4.0 released (2025/01/19 09:28)

Read the CHANGELOG

Source Code Repository

https://gitlab.xfce.org/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin

Reporting Bugs

  • Reporting Bugs – List of currently open bugs and instructions on how to submit new bug reports

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