Samba won't dance
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Apr 14 13:19:14 UTC 2008
> SELinux has denied the samba daemon access to users' home directories. Someone
> is attempting to access your home directories via your samba daemon. If you
> only setup samba to share non-home directories, this probably signals a
> intrusion attempt. For more information on SELinux integration with samba,
> look at the samba_selinux man page. (man samba_selinux) Allowing AccessIf you
> want samba to share home directories you need to turn on the
> samba_enable_home_dirs boolean: "setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1"
If you are trying to use samba to allow users to access their home files
then the setsebool -P .... is needed for that bit work, hence the
message initially, but after doing that you shouldn't see it again
> a can't connect error. On my Fedora box, if I type smb:/ in the Konqueror
> window, it shows me two networks (my laptop is configured to auto-connect to
> the domain at work so that's not surprising), but if I click on the home
What does smbclient show you - that will give you a lot of good debug and
similar information to help trace a funny. Samba on FC8 definitely works
for some of us.
Alan
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