The Thunar Shares Plugin (thunar-shares-plugin) allows you to quickly share a folder using Samba from Thunar (the Xfce file manager) without requiring root access.
Thunar-shares-plugin documentation
See NEWS for details on changes and fixes made in the current release.
Thunar-shares-plugin source code
Thunar-shares-plugin shares or Thunar-shares-plugin tags
From source code repository:
% cd thunar-shares-plugin
% ./autogen.sh
% make
% make install
From release tarball:
% tar xf thunar-shares-plugin-<version>.tar.bz2
% cd thunar-shares-plugin-<version>
% ./configure
% make
% make install
For information about how to setup Samba correctly, see Samba Setup in the Xfce documentation.
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