[Samba] Semantics of "smb ports = 0"

[Nikolaus Rath]

On 04/26/2012 09:09 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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 ?

No, with Samba 3.6.4 it does not listen anywhere. So this has always
been the case?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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