[Bug 50385] Re: samba can't be launched by a normal user (qemu related)

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My name is Agustin Liguori and not Anthony

please check your email

sincerely
Agustin Liguori


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Dustin Kirkland
<dustin.kirkland at gmail.com>wrote:

> I spoke with upstream about this, and they indicated that this option is
> not used very often and if it's broken, it should be removed from the
> upstream sources.
>
> I have subscribed Anthony Liguori to this bug, who is the upstream qemu
> maintainer and happens to also be a samba developer.
>
> Anthony-
>
> Can you test this functionality and determine if it's still supported by
> upstream qemu/kvm?
>
> :-Dustin
>
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> samba can't be launched by a normal user (qemu related)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50385
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> Status in “kvm” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “qemu” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “samba” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “qemu” source package in Debian: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> hello, I'm using qemu with the option -smb which is a way to enable a samba
> server in the network emulated in the qemu virtual machine.
> -smb option generates on the fly a new smb.conf stored in /tmp with a new
> share called [qemu] (I can specify the directory "-smb dir").
> this option enables ip 10.0.2.4 in the virtual machine to be a samba
> server, but which I try to browse it, there are some errors and the process
> smbd on the host machine, launched by qemu goes in [defunct]
>
> if I launch qemu as root this problem doesn not occurr, but the new share
> is not enabled. I think it could be that smbd doesn't care about the new
> smb.conf and it uses the default one. could it be so?
>


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   Agustín Liguori

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samba can't be launched by a normal user (qemu related)
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