On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:04:30AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > The qemu emulator has a feature to fork a samba instance for file > sharing with the emulated hosts. It communicates with smbd over stdin. > The generated configuration file contains a "smb ports = 0" directive to > prevent smbd from listening to any ports. > > Unfortunately, with at least Samba 3.6.4 this causes a segfault > instead: > > [0] vostro:/tmp/qemu-smb.6836-0# smbd -i -s smb.conf > Unable to setup corepath for smbd: Operation not permitted > smbd version 3.6.4 started. > Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011 > open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to. > =============================================================== > Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed > =============================================================== > BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames: > #0 smbd(log_stack_trace+0x1a) [0x7fe50c14f8ba] > #1 smbd(+0x6a0743) [0x7fe50c3bd743] > #2 smbd(+0x6a0a41) [0x7fe50c3bda41] > #3 smbd(main+0xa52) [0x7fe50be26d42] > #4 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe508ac0ead] > #5 smbd(+0x10a6b9) [0x7fe50be276b9] > > > Also, there is some confusion as to whether this option was actually > ever necessary. > > Could someone clarify if something like this is still needed, or if > Samba does the right think automatically? In the later case, has this > always been the case or was it introduced in a specific version (and the > "smb ports = 0" required before)? If you remove the "smb ports = 0" value does the started Samba bind to any interfaces ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba