samba home var directory permissions

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:46 +0100, Guido Leisker wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> (thats a test ...)
> 
> [freigabe]
>   path=/
>     .
>     .
>     .
> works fine until I want to change the working dir to /home. Thats nor allowed. I cant understand that, unix right to r and x are give to all (including "other").
> Who is restricting this cd?
> Using smbclient NT_STATUS_ ACCESS_DENIED is the result.
> 
> There is also no way to share the homes:
> NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
> NT_STATUS_...WRONG-Password..  or so comes variantly.
> 
> A simelar problem is with /var:
> Here its allowed to "cd /var", but making a "ls /var" or "dir /var" is not allowed.
> 
> I am sure that the unix permissions are not the reason. Even 777-permissions does not solve the problem.
> 
> I found nothing about known issues to that. I think that a fedora specific problem. With Suse is has been working fine with the same settings.
> Its seems to be no samba-problem, because efileman (if you know) has simelar problems.
> 
> thanks for any answers

Try "man samba_selinux" for some useful hints.

Paul.
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