Samba, SELinux, Printing problem

[Robert Locke]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:23 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
<snip>
> Here are the relvant entries in smb.conf
> 
>  load printers = yes
> cups options = raw
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /usr/spool/samba
>    browseable = no
> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = no
>    printable = yes
> 
> 
> The above is an excerpt from the unadulterated smb.conf installed by fedora.
> 
> 
> If it is not SELinux doing something, then why does this cofigration 
> work perfectly when FC5 is setup without SELinux?
> 

Are you sure it worked without SELinux turned on?

Anyway, for me it boiled down to correcting the above "path" line.  One
of the updates changed it from /var to /usr....  Try changing that back
to /var and restart Samba.  That took care of it for me....

Check out the samba log files under /var/log/samba....

--Rob