Hi, work-around for user accounts you trust as administrators, if you don't want to run everything as root, but are not so insane as to use `chmod a+rw`:
essentially just give the user permission to the files in the /var/lib/samba dir as noted by others earlier. (as root) # disable samba startup at boot: (so only qemu's one will be running) update-rc.d -f samba remove adduser $YOU adm chgrp adm /var/lib/samba/*.tdb chmod g+rw /var/lib/samba/*.tdb I also applied that to /var/lib/samba/perfmon and the parent dir but I don't know if that is really necessary. note that cd /tmp/qemu-smb.1234-0 /usr/sbin/smbd -i -s smb.conf ends with: """ ... Failed to open group mapping ldb '/var/lib/samba/group_mapping.ldb' - '(null)' ... Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed BACKTRACE: ... ... """ but C:\> net use e: \\10.0.2.4\qemu in the WinXP guest works. shrug. tested in Debian/squeeze + samba 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2 :-/ Hamish -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50385 Title: samba does not support private dir option (qemu related) -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
