SAMBA home directories and SELinux

[Jonathan Underwood]

Stephen Walton wrote:
> I have the usual entry in smb.conf on my FC4 server:
> 
> [homes]
>        comment = Home Directories
>        read only = No
>        browseable = No
> 
> As an additional wrinkle, home directories on the server are physically 
> on /users but get mounted on demand on /home on both the server and on 
> client workstations using a typical LDAP/autofs setup.
> 
> With SELinux enabled, both smbclient and users on Windows machines fail 
> to get access to home directories.  What magic chcon invocation do I need?
> 
I had this issue too, solved by:

 From Gnome desktop panel menus:

Desktop->System Settings->Security Level

(Alternatively run system-config-securitylevel from a command line)

Select SElinux tab, scroll down in the box at the bottom and expand the 
Samba section, and check "Allow samba to share users home directories"

Jonathan.