shares-admin(1)

📦 version 3.0.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 shares-admin(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so quick vibe check: this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and the star of the show is shares-admin. pull up a chair, we're sharing folders 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

shares-admin — the Shared Folders Administration Tool 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

shares-admin [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. so simple, so clean, we love to see it ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

shares-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, which is a set of tools made to easily access and manage system configuration. like, the whole point is making system stuff not feel like a boss fight, yk?

and shares-admin specifically? it lets you share folders to other computers on your network, or honestly, out there on the internet 🌈 the way that your little folder can just be seen by other machines... main character energy fr fr 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • shares-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

(no custom flags, no secret menu, no nothing — it's giving "i let GNOME and GTK handle my options and i simply exist" 😌 and honestly? iconic. if you wanna know what those standard options are, that's a whole other page, see below 👇)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

shares-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others 🫶

this manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project — but lowkey it may be used by others too, so no gatekeeping here 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

also!! the online documentation that you can get to through the program's Help menu 🌸 like it's literally right there, bestie, go click it.

ngl if you got here looking for a million flags, i'm so sorry, there's literally one line of options. go read gnome-options(7), that's where the party's at 💀

and that's the whole page!! this was the GNOME edition, dated 2007-05-08 ⭐ tysm for reading, go share a folder, drink some water, and slay the day 💅🦋✨

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