Re: [Qemu-devel] SAMBA support in QEMU

[Fabrice Bellard]

Adrian Smarzewski wrote:
> Adrian Smarzewski wrote:
>
> > I can run it as root only. What files must be writable for user to run 
> > smbd via qemu?
>
>
> bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/smbd -i
> smbd version 3.0.8 started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
> file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1004 are 
> available.
> bind failed on port 445 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
>
> I think smb support is "root-only" or is near it :(
> Any ideas?

QEMU gives specific commands to smbd so that it can be run as non root 
(in particular, it uses stdio to communicate with smbd instead of a 
priviledged socket with a port < 1024). I think your problem comes from 
the fact that you use smbd version 3. I only tested QEMU with the version 2.

The solution would be either to support version 3 or to include the smbd 
code in QEMU so that we can be sure it behaves as expected.

Fabrice.