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Launching Personal File Sharing from dash, the application opens with the message: "this feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not installed on your system". I tried sudo apt-get install gnome-user-share apache2.2-bin libapache2-mod-dnssd as per this article, but that doesn't work (the error for that is: "apache2.2-bin : Breaks: gnome-user-share (< 3.8.0-2~) but 3.0.4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed "). Is it possible to get this working on 14.04?

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It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion about two different services, the one that Ubuntu calls Personal File Sharing is actually WebDav and it is controlled by Gnome-user-share package together with apache2.2-bin (webserver) and libapache2-mod-dnssd (avahi/mDNS/DNS-SD). The other one accessible from Nautilus folder share and property tab For windows network shares you do not samba – MaKr0 Jul 20 '16 at 4:01
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As far as my own experience tells me, you just have to:

sudo apt-get install apache2.2-bin libapache2-mod-dnssd
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Nope, it removes the personal file sharing application altogether. But then re-installing it (sudo apt-get install gnome-user-share) works and it is available again from dash, this time without the error message. – matt Nov 10 '14 at 15:22
    
Ok, so it works. Did you have Samba installed before trying to do the above? – Consumology Nov 10 '14 at 15:39
    
Yes, I think it came along with Ubuntu. Anyway, I'm not sure what's going on now after this installation: after I check "Share public files on network" after right clicking on the Public folder and navigating to the "Local Network Share" tab, sharing works. As I understand it this is the samba file sharing, and it works. But making changes on the "Personal File Sharing" application (e.g. requiring a password or disallowing the share) seem to take no effect. So I'm not sure whether the "Personal File Sharing" application really works (?). – matt Nov 10 '14 at 16:19
    
I access into the shared Public folder from the other Ubuntu desktop via the Browse Network dialog of the file explorer, not the "Connect to Server" one by the way. As mentioned, it works (but seems to ignore settings in "Personal File Sharing" – matt Nov 10 '14 at 16:22
    
My guess is, that you did not set up Samba completely as you had to install it somehow, it is not installed by default in Ubuntu. – Consumology Nov 10 '14 at 20:03

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