Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb

[Anthony Liguori]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>   
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >     
> > > It looks to be broken.  I don't recall that Samba has every supported
> > > running as an unprivileged user to so it would require launching as root.
> > >       
> > It works perfectly. I even have a patch pending that fixes the zombie
> > issue it causes (more precisely, slirp missed that).
> >     
>
> I've been unable to use it for a year or so due to Samba having
> hard-coded directory paths, pointing into /var/lib/samba, which cannot
> be overridden in the config file smb.conf.
>   

Yes, this has been my experience too.  I just assumed this was upstream 
behavior.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori