Do the Samba

I often edit and open files from Gnome Nautilus file manager for simplicity sake. I usually open it via the terminal window. However, just typing in 'nautilus' has always given me this message just before it would open:

** (nautilus:18315): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not supported
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

There is a simple fix to removing this prompt and allowing nautilus to open even faster. At least it does for me.

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs

Head over to the Samba documentation page for more info on what Samba can do for you.

Samba can be used to:

• Act as a server for Windows (or Samba) clients: share folders and printers, including PDF pseudo-printers so all the computers in your network may write PDF files
• Act as a domain controller in a Windows network (authenticating users, etc.)
• Do some more complex things, such as using a Windows domain controller to authenticate the users of a Linux/UNIX machine