[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#443230: Enable net usershare

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve:

> > I agree here. We should propose a patch to upstream as I don't see any
> > reason to have a default to /var/run/samba/usershares
> 
> <ahem> better make it part of the fhs patch submission then, since that's
> ultimately where this comes from. :)

I don't understand the "comes from". Do you mean that our fhs.patch is
responsible for the strange default directory for usershares. If it
is, then we should correct it, for sure.

> > usershare = yes
> > usershare max shares = <integer>
> 
> I'm not sure that we would want the share count to be unlimited by default
> either, though?

Well, picking a number would be tricky. One that's suitable for Joe
might be completely incorrect for Barbara.


> > > How about "sambashare" or "samba-share"?  It does, after all, have little to
> > > do with the smb protocol, but everything to do with the samba package.
> 
> > I have a small preference for "sambashare" while "cifsshare" seems
> > more precise to me....but more cryptic for people who don't know what
> > CIFS is.
> 
> cifsshare would also be ok with me.


While technically "cifsshare" is more precise, I think that
"sambashare" is clearer for our users.


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