SELinux enforcing, an external ntfs-3g mount, Samba and Fedora 8

[craigni]

Thanks super, Craig--that was a missing link.  Not only can my Windows XP boxes see the Fedora system, they can access my home directory.  However, the final piece of the puzzle is driving me nuts.  They *cannot* access the ntfs-3g drive.  The drive shows, but when I click on it, I get an SELinux AVC Denial, which says SELinux is preventing the samba daemon from serving r/o local files to remote clients, and tells me that I need to turn on the samba_export_all_ro boolean, which I did without success.

I even tried to change the permissions on the ntfs-3g drive to match those of my home directory, eg
cd /mnt
sudo chown -R username extdrive
sudo chgrp -R usergroup extdrive
But weirdness of weirdness, when I ls that drive, all the files are still owned by root root.

Any help in any direction would be massively appreciated,
Thanks,
Craig
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 08:31 +0100, craigni wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone got Samba working to access an external ntfs-3g mount with SELinux enforcing on Fedora 8?  The following is what I've done so far, and my networked XP Pro machines aren't even seeing the Linux box--any ideas?
> > 
> > Many TIA,
> > Craig
> > 
> > Administration->Samba
> > Directory      Share name Permissions Visibility
> > /mnt/ntfsdrive ntfsdrive  Read/Write  Visible
> > 
> > Bottom of my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:
> > 
> > [ntfsdrive]
> > path = /mnt/ntfsdrive
> > writeable = yes
> > ;       browseable = yes
> > guest ok = yes
> > 
> > System->SELinux Management->Boolean checked:
> > samba: Allow samba to run as the domain controller
> > samba: Export all files on system read-write
> > samba: Allow samba to export user home directories
> > samba: Allow samba to modify public files
> > samba: Allow samba to export NFS volumes
> > samba: Allow samba to run unconfined scripts
> > 
> > Settings->Firewall
> > Samba green checked as a trusted service
> > 
> > sudo smbpasswd -a username
> > sudo /etc/init.d/smb restart
> > sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 smb on
> > sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list smb
> > smb             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
> > 
> > sudo /etc/init.d/smb restart
> > Shutting down SMB services:                                [  OK  ]
> > Starting SMB services:                                     [  OK  ]
> > 
> ----
> If your problem is computers 'seeing' your F8 samba, I understand they separated smb and nmb and must be started / configured separately.
> 
> sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 2345 nmb on
> sudo /sbin/service nmb restart
> 
> Craig



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