On 04/26/2012 09:09 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:04:30AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The qemu emulator has a feature to fork a samba instance for file >> sharing with the emulated hosts. It communicates with smbd over stdin. >> The generated configuration file contains a "smb ports = 0" directive to >> prevent smbd from listening to any ports. >> >> Unfortunately, with at least Samba 3.6.4 this causes a segfault >> instead: >> >> [0] vostro:/tmp/qemu-smb.6836-0# smbd -i -s smb.conf >> Unable to setup corepath for smbd: Operation not permitted >> smbd version 3.6.4 started. >> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011 >> open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to. >> =============================================================== >> Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed >> =============================================================== >> BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames: >> #0 smbd(log_stack_trace+0x1a) [0x7fe50c14f8ba] >> #1 smbd(+0x6a0743) [0x7fe50c3bd743] >> #2 smbd(+0x6a0a41) [0x7fe50c3bda41] >> #3 smbd(main+0xa52) [0x7fe50be26d42] >> #4 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe508ac0ead] >> #5 smbd(+0x10a6b9) [0x7fe50be276b9] >> >> >> Also, there is some confusion as to whether this option was actually >> ever necessary. >> >> Could someone clarify if something like this is still needed, or if >> Samba does the right think automatically? In the later case, has this >> always been the case or was it introduced in a specific version (and the >> "smb ports = 0" required before)? > > If you remove the "smb ports = 0" value does the started Samba > bind to any interfaces ?
No, with Samba 3.6.4 it does not listen anywhere. So this has always been the case? 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 from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
