Introduction

gnome-user-share is a session service that exports the contents of the Public folder in your home directory, so that they can easily be accessed from other computers on the same local network. On the other computers, the shared folder will appear with a name like 'user's shared files' in the nautilus Network window, where user will be replaced by your user name.

gnome-user-share uses a WebDAV server to share the Public folder, and advertises the share on the local network using mDNS.

Additionally, gnome-user-share can make the shared files available via ObexFTP over Bluetooth, and receive files that are sent to your computer via Bluetooth via ObexPush.