Comment 39 for bug 50385

Hi,

work-around for user accounts you trust as administrators, if you don't want to run everything as root, but are not so insane as to use `chmod a+rw`:

essentially just give the user permission to the files in the /var/lib/samba dir as noted by others earlier.

(as root)
# disable samba startup at boot: (so only qemu's one will be running)
update-rc.d -f samba remove
adduser $YOU adm
chgrp adm /var/lib/samba/*.tdb
chmod g+rw /var/lib/samba/*.tdb

I also applied that to /var/lib/samba/perfmon and the parent dir but I don't know if that is really necessary.

note that
cd /tmp/qemu-smb.1234-0
/usr/sbin/smbd -i -s smb.conf
ends with:
"""
...
Failed to open group mapping ldb '/var/lib/samba/group_mapping.ldb' - '(null)'
...
Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed
BACKTRACE: ...
...
"""

but
C:\> net use e: \\10.0.2.4\qemu

in the WinXP guest works. shrug.

tested in Debian/squeeze + samba 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2

:-/

Hamish