Hello, With a recent qemu-kvm, kvm talks to smbd using stdin. Samba detects this and does not bind to any socket. I just submitted a patch for Samba that allows specification of the "private dir" (Bug #249873), so that non-root operation is in principle supported as well. So the issues in the original report are effectively solved.
At the moment, there are three other issues that prevent qemu+smbd from working in Debian: - qemu-kvm writes a bogus "smb ports = 0" into the generated smbd configuration. This causes smbd to crash. I have submitted a patch in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/148378. - qemu-kvm needs to specify a state directory as well. Patch at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/148286/ - Samba 3.6.0 has a bug when running in "share" mode: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8414 As far as qemu-kvm is concerned, we can work around this problem with no side effects if we add a "force user" directive to the generated smb conf. I'll be happy to provide a patch for the Debian qemu-kvm package if that would be integrated (I don't think working around samba bugs would stand a good chance upstream). The patches have been tested in Debian testing. I don't know how long it will take for them to be integrated upstream, so it would be great if they could already be added to the Debian package so that qemu smb sharing will work in wheezy. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
