Yeah, I miss them, too…
Since version 8.04 (Hardy Heron) the Ubuntu folks decided to take down the Shared Folders item from the Administration menu. Of course, you can still right-click on specific folders and go to the Sharing Options, or go to the Properties and then to the Share tab, however, it’s still good to be able to view all the folders that you share at a glance.
The good news is that, the Shared Folders Manager is still with us, we just have to run it manually, though. Just press Alt-F2 and execute the shares-admin command, and there you have it.
I would like to say “Thanks” to Mohamed for giving me the idea for this post.