Share Files over the Network - What packages?
I see a pop up that says
Share Files over the Network
This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not installed on your system
Simple enough, but what packages do I need?
what worked for me was install Apache2. Just install a LAMP server (or just apache) --
sudo apt-get install apache2
Then it should work just fine.
In 16.04 the change is from
to
When you share files over the network in Ubuntu, you use samba - so you'll need to run sudo apt-get install samba and then try sharing the folder again.