Sorted - kinda. Re: FC5 SAMBA security=share [homes] problem

[Paul Howarth]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:23, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:10 -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
>>> Shot in the dark, but could SELinux be getting in your way?  The default
>>> targeted policy in FC5 is blocking Samba sharing of home.  Not sure how
>>> to change it at the command line, but if you look in
>>> system-config-securitylevel there is a boolean under Samba that refers
>>> to allowing home directories to be shared.....
>> That would be:
>>
>> # setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1
>>
>> See "man samba_selinux"
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>> --Rob
> 
> Partial success lads.  Ran the command-line,  and checked in the GIU that it 
> was set.
> 
> However, Samba still failed until I set SELinux to permissive working, at 
> which point it started working.
> 
> Thanks to both of toy

OK, so now look for SELinux denial messages in /var/log/messages (I 
assume you're running auditd) that may relate to samba. Post them here 
and we should be able to sort this.

Paul.