Ubuntu
samba package

  1. Bug #50385
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 50385

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Mark Warriner (warriner) wrote : Re: samba can't be launched by a normal user (qemu related)

This is a Debian/Ubuntu specific samba bug, as explained in comment #7 above. It is not a qemu or kvm bug. The QEMU -smb option works fine in many other distributions, where it can be run as a normal user without special permissions, and with multiple instances on the same machine. This is a fantastic feature, and I hope the samba patch can be fixed so we can support it in Debian/Ubuntu.

Note: I believe the -smb option was recently moved as a sub-option of -net, but it is still supported by QEMU.