Feature changed by: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) Feature #305535, revision 13 Title: Improve samba yast modules openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Christoph Thiel (cthiel1) reject date: 2009-06-05 15:10:01 reject reason: Missing details. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: James McDonough (jmcdough) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Improve the design of the yast samba modules. More details to come. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444603 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Many customers report difficulties with various areas of samba yast administration, both with new features requested and layout of current ones. Discussion: #1: Christoph Thiel (cthiel1) (2009-05-28 15:34:16) James, do you have more details yet? Otherwise, we'll have to reject it for openSUSE 11.2 right away. + #2: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) (2009-06-08 21:40:29) + As someone who just spent a day configuring Samba, I support this. + The Samba module is a bit advanced, but my main problem was I just + didn't know I had to allow Samba in the firewall. I think the module + should do something about this. Perhaps when you hit Ok you get a + prompt allong the lines of "You have enabled Samba, but the Firewall is + set to block Samba. Would you like to change the Firewall to allow + Samba?" + Still I would like to see a simpler module. Perhaps one that has a just + a few options (then takes a reasonable stab at the rest). Maybe have a + global "Enable Folder and Printer Sharing" toggle, and a toggle to + enable password protection (and set the password!). Then have "Enable + Printer Sharing", "Enable Folder Sharing" subcategories. I don't have + any interest in printer sharing, so I don't know if any sub-options + would be applicable or not. For folder sharing, you would need a list + of directories to share. Not much else needs to be presented to the + user IMO. + Also have it so when you use the KDE Item Properties Panel (and the + Gnome equivelent), it is pre-setup to allow users to add shares without + root priveleges. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305535