[Samba] On macOS: Shares appear empty, only directories (no files)?

[Stefan Sobernig]

Dear all,

I hope to make samba.org's |smbd| (4.9.12) run on my MBP (M1, 13.6.2) to 
provide shares to some VMs (qemu/ UTM) on and restricted to the same 
host [1]. I succeeded in installing Samba via MacPorts and via homebrew, 
I created some test shares (incl. a public one allowing for guest 
access), but there is an anomaly: I can access the shares using 
|smbclient| from the macOS host, or from any VM (running Windows, 
running Linux), but they appear empty except for (sub-)directories.

With logging on, I spotted entries like:

|openat_pathref_fsp_nosymlink: SMB_VFS_OPENAT(., dummy-1.pdf, 
RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS) returned 78 Function not implemented => 
NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED readlink_talloc: SMB_VFS_READLINKAT() failed: No 
such file or directory read_symlink_reparse: readlink_talloc failed: 
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND openat_pathref_fsp_nosymlink: 
create_open_symlink_err failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND 
file_free: freed files structure 0 (1 used) smbd_dirptr_get_entry: Could 
not open dummy-1.pdf: NT_STATUS_NOT_A_DIRECTORY smbd_dirptr_get_entry: 
dir [.] dirptr [0x131e123c0] offset [3] => dname [(finished)] 
smbd_smb2_request_find_done: out_output_buffer.length = 220 |

My full report is at [2].

I'd appreciate your hints!

Thx! Stefan

[1] https://gist.github.com/erkserkserks/0d48f75e1a36bc9e1ccdc3e1428efba0
[2] 
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/466771/smbd-on-macos-shares-appear-empty-only-directories-no-files

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