From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1KnK-0007Uo-Qx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:34:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1KnF-0007Ql-NQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:34:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42829 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1KnF-0007QK-Ci for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:34:45 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:59114) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1KnE-0004NA-Rv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:34:45 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n45DUrPR023507 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:30:53 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n45DYdet154270 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:34:39 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n45DYdB4015640 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:34:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4A00406D.5070304@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 08:34:37 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Does anyone actually use -smb References: <49FF31E4.8040106@us.ibm.com> <49FF4DC2.4020003@web.de> <20090505014744.GD12731@shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20090505014744.GD12731@shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Jan Kiszka , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" 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. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori