Easy filesharing?

[Peter de Ridder]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:22:01 -0300
> "David B. Cortarello" <dcortarello at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>   A couple of years back I used thunar-shares-plugin
>> (http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin)
>> with Thunar 0.8 to share folders with samba, I don't know if the
>> plugin will still work with the existing versions of thunar, but you
>> could take a look at it.
>
> True, for SMB shares there's thunar-shares-plugin. I'm not sure there
> has been a release for Thunar >= 1.2.0 yet. A quick look suggests the
> port to GIO is unfinished.

I tried the thunarx-2 branch from git, and with the right
configuration of samba I could share folders.
It doesnt have a "share this folder" in the menu. Instead it has a tab
page in the proferties dialog of a folder.

Regards,
Peter