Samba shares...

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue May 13 15:23:35 UTC 2008


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
> >
> > Not sure if this will work, but try adding a
> > "context=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t" to the
> > list of options in your fstab.
> 
> Sorry I was not able to get your reply in my inbox, it was
> spam-blocked, but I have it fixed now.
> 
> Can you please tell me how to add your suggestion to
> the fstab as options?

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


-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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