Comment 19 for bug 208480

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Carlos Garnacho (carlosg) wrote :

> would you argue that the tools was working? you can't share anonymously using it and you need to use the
> command line to set a password to do a normal share. what do you think the normal user reaction to this is? we
> got many bugs asking why we ship something which doesn't work, because they share things over smb but
> nobody can use those.

Seb, that's just half true, shares-admin gained the ability to set SMB passwords during the last release, and AFAIK share-level security is strongly discouraged by SMB developers, that's why shares-admin never implemented this.