Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug#727756: qemu: Broken -smb with latest SAMBA package. (Unsupported security=share option)

[Michael Büsch]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:19:29 +0400
Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for the report and the patch Michael.  Are you sure the result
> is equivalent?

Well, I am far from being an SMB expert. So I can't really say whether this
is equivalent.
I also posted this patch to the qemu-devel list, but didn't get a reply, yet.

I tested this with a Windows XP client. Without this patch the
client will always ask for username and password. Which I am unable to
supply (smbpasswd is empty after all).
With this patch applied, the share works without authentication. And this
is how it used to work in previous versions, too.

> explicitly says that guest is okay, and forces user to the
> right one.  And it should work the same with other versions
> of samba too.

I only tried this with smbd from sid.
My guess is that it would work on older versions, too. But that is
untested.

> Also, which users are "bad" -- will it be possible for our
> user to "clash" with some built-in/known user?

'bad" users seem to be users that are not in the smbpasswd file.
As qemu creates an empty smbpasswd file, all users probably are "bad".
But I'm not sure if there are exceptions to that.

> Cc'ing qemu-devel@ because this needs to be resolved
> upstream too.

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