Samba shares...

[Eric Paris]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:37 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:27 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > |Stephen Smalley
> > ||On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 08:12 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > ||> Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > ||> >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > ||> >> I am not sure what is going on.  I am unable to get
> > ||> >> samba shares to work for an NTFS filesystem.  I do
> > ||> >> have several shares working for ext3 filesystems.
> > ||> >> 
> > ||> >> Here is what I did:
> > ||> >> 
> > ||> >> 1) Create an empty directory: /AV
> > ||> >> 2) chcon -t samba_share_t /AV
> > ||> >> 3) chmod 775 !$
> > ||> >> 4) chgrp avusers !$
> > ||> >> 5) Add to fstab
> > ||> >>    /dev/sda1 /AV ntfs defaults 1 2
> > |   [snipped!]
> > ||
> > ||It is just another mount option, so you can just do something like:
> > ||/dev/sda1 /AV ntfs 
> > |defaults,context=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t 1 2
> > |
> > |Yes, I thought so.  I tried that and the context does not
> > |change.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > Mounting an NTFS filesystem even with context options,
> > the context always remains as fusefs_t. I am allowed
> > to change the context on the directory before the mount,
> > but not after the mount. After mounting, I am not allowed
> > to chcon the mounted FS as it says that the Operation is
> > not allowed.
> 
> Can you confirm that if you umount /AV and then mount it with the
> context= option that it really doesn't work for you?  You do have to
> umount it though if you previously mounted it w/o the context option to
> make the option take affect.
> 
> I'm not sure why a context mount option wouldn't work for fuse - Eric?

No idea, but I haven't looked at what hackers fuse does either.....

-Eric