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

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> OpenSUSE 11.0 with samba-3.2.4-4.3 and 11.1 with samba-3.2.7-11.2.1.
> 
> Maybe you should file a bug at your distro if its version doesn't behave
> according to its docs.

But it does behave according to its docs.

The Samba docs "man smbd" list a lot of files in /var/lib/samba, for
which there is no smb.conf option to change the path.

I've just looked at RHEL 4.6 (ancient - samba-3.0.25b) and Ubuntu 9.04
(new - samba-2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3), which I happen to have.

>From "man smbd", does yours not have these?

   Samba stores it´s data in several TDB (Trivial Database) files, usually
   located in /var/lib/samba.

   (*) information persistent across restarts (but not necessarily
   important to backup).

   account_policy.tdb*
       NT account policy settings such as pw expiration, etc...

   brlock.tdb
       byte range locks

   browse.dat
       browse lists

   connections.tdb
       share connections (used to enforce max connections, etc...)

   gencache.tdb
       generic caching db

   group_mapping.tdb*
       group mapping information

   locking.tdb
       share modes & oplocks

   login_cache.tdb*
       bad pw attempts

   messages.tdb
       Samba messaging system

   netsamlogon_cache.tdb*
       cache of user net_info_3 struct from net_samlogon() request (as a
       domain member)

   ntdrivers.tdb*
       installed printer drivers

   ntforms.tdb*
       installed printer forms

   ntprinters.tdb*
       installed printer information

   printing/
       directory containing tdb per print queue of cached lpq output

   registry.tdb
       Windows registry skeleton (connect via regedit.exe)

   sessionid.tdb
       session information (e.g. support for ´utmp = yes´)

   share_info.tdb*
       share acls

   winbindd_cache.tdb
       winbindd´s cache of user lists, etc...

   winbindd_idmap.tdb*
       winbindd´s local idmap db

   wins.dat*
       wins database when ´wins support = yes´

Most of them correspond to features which are disabled for QEMU, but
some aren't.

I'm only talking about this because I've tried to use QEMU "-smb" in
the last year and couldn't get it working.  It looked like I needed to
reconfigure and recompile Samba from source to use it.

-- Jamie