network: 0.973 user-level: 0.937 virtual: 0.894 graphic: 0.862 device: 0.852 files: 0.817 semantic: 0.816 architecture: 0.813 performance: 0.810 permissions: 0.742 register: 0.711 ppc: 0.673 vnc: 0.619 socket: 0.614 debug: 0.569 PID: 0.553 mistranslation: 0.539 risc-v: 0.491 boot: 0.489 arm: 0.461 peripherals: 0.454 hypervisor: 0.445 KVM: 0.356 kernel: 0.332 i386: 0.330 TCG: 0.315 VMM: 0.297 assembly: 0.247 x86: 0.243 User networking with an SMB Share while not running as root Description of problem: When attempting to write a file to the qemu share, Samba always responds with NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. This only happens on the MacOS version of Samba, on Linux it appears to work without issues for now. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start a VM with a SMB share attached to it 2. Create a test file to upload `touch test-file.txt` 3. Upload the test file `smbclient //10.0.2.4/qemu -c 'put test-file.txt' Additional information: QEMU has been using Samba for it's SMB shares for quite some time now. But in the 4.17.x release a bug has appeared in the MacOS Build of Samba. I've filed a bug with Samba, and suggested a fix for it. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15215 The origin of the bug lies in the fact that when running SMBD as a non-root user, a function sets `errno` unexpectedly. But after discussing this with Samba, they concluded that running smbd as an un-privileged user is not a supported use case. Whilst this is not a QEMU bug per se, it is caused by the fact that QEMU is running smbd in an unsupported manner. As a side note, on Linux this bug does not appear to exist as of yet. The Linux version of `unbecome_root` doesn't seem to set `errno`. (tested on a recent ArchLinux install). But I think this depends on the LibC implementation of setuid/seteuid/setreuid/etc. so I can't say it won't happen in the future, or with a different LibC implementation.