Read-write samba share not writable in FC5T3

Dane Mutters dmutters at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 06:14:46 UTC 2006


On Monday 27 February 2006 09:13 pm, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> Have you tried labeling the samba share with the correct security
> context (I think it's samba_share_t?). See "man samba_selinux". I don't
> think you should pay attention to the line that mentions editing a
> config file - that's most likely out of date, and misleading.
>
> Just like you have to set the proper Unix permissions to make Samba
> sharing work, you also have to set the proper Selinux permissions on a
> SELinux-enabled system.
>
> There's also an old bug about this issue that I filed long ago, which
> suggests integration between system-config-samba and selinux:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144513
>
> I am currently working on nautilus integration with selinux, so maybe
> that could also be helpful.

Thanks for the tip!  Now the shares are working OK with SELinux enabled.  I 
agree that there should be some integration between system-config-samba and 
SELinux.  Let me know if you need a tester for your integration project(s).

--Dane




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