Thunar - thunar-shares-plugin
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
The share editor can be found in the file properties dialog (Share page).
Required Packages
- Thunar-VFS (0.8 or above)
For detailed information on the minimum required versions, check the configure.ac.in file.
Building and Installing
(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
Samba Setup
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:
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)
Latest Release
- thunar-shares-plugin 0.3.2 released (2023/01/03 22:44)
thunar-shares-plugin 0.3.2 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin/0.3/thunar-shares-plugin-0.3.2.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin/0.3/thunar-shares-plugin-0.3.2.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin/0.3/thunar-shares-plugin-0.3.2.tar.bz2?sha256 What is 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. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/custom-actions Release notes for 0.3.2 ======================= Bugfix release 0.3.2 (2023-01-03) ===== - Use long argument for net usershare to prevent bug (Issue #16) - build: Bump GLib minimum required to 2.26 - Revert "configure.ac: use AC_PROG_CC_C99" - configure.ac: use AC_PROG_CC_C99 - Create README.md. Update configure.ac.in - Add basic GitLab pipeline - Translation Updates: Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Eastern Armenian, Eastern Armenian (Russia), Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kabyle, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
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