Bug#597166: gnome-user-share: please support symlinks in the ~/Public folder

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 10:00 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : 
> I'd like to share my Photos via gnome-user-share and thus I symlink my
> ~/Pictures folder into my ~/Public folder. However, the Pictures folder does
> not appear when I open the shared folder from a remote computer. It only
> appears when I copy it, but I simply don't want to duplicate data in my $HOME
> just to make them available through gnome-user-share.

This could be done with the FollowSymLinks option, but my apache-fu is
not enough to know how it behaves when you enable write permissions in
this directory. Do you know whether this would make unwanted files
modifiable remotely?

Cheers,
-- 
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