Comment 10 for bug 212098

Is there any way that this can be resolved without requiring the user to log in and log out? I, for instance, use Ubuntu because it's stable and polished and I don't have to restart and log in and log out all the time. This would be the ideal behaviour.

As it is right now the error it spits out isn't really all that useful unless you already understand what's going on. My use case is this: I right-clicked on my home folder, selected "Sharing Options". I checked the box to share the folder, and Ubuntu installed the correct software for me. This is excellent behaviour. However, when I tried to click "Create Share" the dialogue box presented me with an error that I found less than informative. I am not a power user, I do not know what these things mean. It would be wonderful if, even after the system tells me to log out and in again, if that error was at least a little more informative.

Also, the same thing with the error I get when I try to name a share with the same name as my username, which is a very common thing when one shares ones home folder. That error message could be more informative, but ideally Ubuntu should detect that you are attempting to share your home folder and name it [username]-home instead.

But ideally I would prefer not to have to log out and log in again. I have quite a few programs I want to run and not be interrupted: Skype, Transmission, Pidgin, etc.