SELinux prevents Samba from sharing NTFS mounts.

[Johnny Tan]

Petteri Kautonen wrote:
> Hi,
> I have F8 and every time to I try to access remotely or locally NTFS 
> filesystems that shared via Samba I get a warning (at the end of this 
> mesage) from SELinux troubleshooter and can't access the share.
> I have tried to mount the filesystem with different context's but none 
> of them seem to do anything. The shares worked with previous version of 
> Fedora (F7). I have tried to mount the NTFS volume doing the following 
> to change it context:
> * mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/petteri-c -o 
> context=system_u:system_r:smbd_t
> * mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/petteri-c -o 
> context=system_u:object_r:smbd_t
> * mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/petteri-c -o 
> fscontext=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t
> and various other mount options such as defcontext= and changed the 
> context=, fscontext=, and defcontext= parameter values.
> But the context stays the same (ls --lcontext):
> drwxrwxrwx  1 _system_u:object_r:fusefs_t_       root root 12288 
> 2007-12-12 21:13 petteri-c

I think this might be similar to my httpd/nfs question a 
couple days ago.

Do you have other mounts of /dev/sda1 besides the 
/mnt/petteri-c?

johnn