[FC5] Samba and SELinux

[Bob Kashani]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:59 -0700, Bob Kashani wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:59 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > What is the procedure for creating Samba shares and
> > getting around the SELinux issues?
> > 
> > Samba by default no longer works with shares such
> > as [homes] and any other added shares without administrator
> > intervention to add SELinux labels on share directories.
> > 
> > Please direct me to the FAQ for Samba & SELinux or
> > please tell me what I have to do to get samba shares
> > working.
> > 
> > In my case - I am getting permission denied in the audit
> > logs and in the message logs for nmbd, I am getting
> > directories do not exists errors (when they actually
> > do!).
> 
> /usr/sbin/setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1
> /usr/sbin/setsebool -P smbd_disable_trans=1
> 
> That's what I had to do to get samba working with home shares on FC5.

Forgot to mention that you need to restart samba for things to work.

/sbin/service smb restart

Bob

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