after FC2 -> FC6 upgrade, Samba prevents access to /home shares

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/29/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > I've got a system that I'm stuck supporting which was recently
> > upgraded from FC2 to FC6.  This system serves as a Samba (SMB) server
> > for a bunch of Windows boxes.  Since the upgrade, all attempts to
> > browse /home (or any of its subdirectories) fail with a permission
> > denied error.  In the samba log, the following appears:
> > '/home/bjohnston' does not exist or permission denied when connecting
> > to [bjohnston]
> > Error was Permission denied
> >
> > Note, the FC6 system is using the same exact smb.conf as it was using
> > under FC2 when everything just worked.  This failure happens with
> > either authenticated browsing or unauthenticated browsing.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
>
> If you haven't checked for SELinux denials (or disabled SELinux
> entirely :), that's one possibility.  The home dirs might not have the
> proper selinux labels.  But I'm just taking a wild guess.

Yup, that was the problem.  Thanks.


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