GNU bug report logs - #26797
qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, 26797-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:22:32 +0200

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> 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.

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