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• Launchpad Entry: easy-file-sharing

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Summary

Make file sharing between ubuntu boxes in a lan/wlan easy.

Release Note

TBD

Rationale

To share a directory in ubuntu it is currently required to install either nfs or samba (neither is available in the default install) and to have super user rights.

Use Cases

• Alice wants to share the fotos on her laptop with some friends.
• Conrad wants his video folder to be visible from the house's shared media PC.

Design

Check the various options:

• samba/nfs as it is currently used via shares-admin

• gnome-user-share (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-user-share) - requires apache2

• giver (http://code.google.com/p/giver/) - c# based

• gshare (http://yimports.com/~cpinto/projects/gnome/gshare) mono + ftp + avahi. in universe. claims to allow sharing to macs, and windows with bonjour installed (or anyone happy to type in ftp://ip:port)

Test/Demo Plan

TBD

BoF agenda and discussion

Use this section to take notes during the BoF; if you keep it in the approved spec, use it for summarising what was discussed and note any options that were rejected.

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