SAMBA home directories and SELinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen Walton wrote:

> Vitaliy Ivanov wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:13, Stephen Walton wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> With SELinux enabled, both smbclient and users on Windows machines fail
>>> to get access to home directories.  What magic chcon invocation do I 
>>> need?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Solution 2 (might survive a reboot; I didn't actually try this one):
>>
>> [root]# setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1
>>
>>  
>>
> This does survive a reboot as it puts samba_enable_home_dirs in 
> /etc/selinux/targeted/booleans.local.  Unfortunately I tried doing 
> both this and
>
> setsebool -P smb_use_home_dirs=1
>
> to no avail.
>
> smbclient //machine/swalton
>
> still throws a NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME error when I try to connect 
> to my home directory with SELinux set to "enforcing", and the error 
> message in the smb log file reads
>
> '/home/swalton' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting 
> to [swalton]
>
Are you seeing AVC messages in /var/log/messages or 
/var/log/audit/audit.log?

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