Subject: Re: bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin
From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:22:32 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Qemu comes with support for sharing files with a guest via Samba.  This
> is done by appending something like this to the qemu-system-*
> invocation:
>
>     … -net user,smb=$HOME/Downloads -net nic
>
> Qemu needs to be told *at configure time* where the smbd executable will
> be at runtime.  By default this is /usr/sbin/smbd.  Users can work
> around this problem by installing the “samba” package and creating a
> link from /usr/sbin/smbd to the actual executable.

This was fixed by Rutger back in
84276503059d46c0a42240f8770f59090614d863 and
0e5d0f66b56221b7de49ab28b607633e413c9110.