Samba shares

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue May 13 15:01:11 UTC 2008


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
> 6) mount -a
> 
> + ls -ldZ /AV
> drwxrwxrwx root root system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0 AV
> 
> + chcon -t samba_share_t /AV
> chcon: failed to change context of /AV to system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0: Operation not supported.
> 
> + umount /AV (no errors)
> + chcon -t samba_share_t /AV (no errors)
> + mount /AV (no errors)
> + ls -ldZ /AV
> drwxrwxrwx root root system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0 AV
> 
> So... why does the system insists of fusefs_t?
> Does this mean that ntfs filesystems does not support samba_share_context?
> 
> HELP!!!
> 
> Thanks!
> Dan
> 
When you mount the file system, the mount point gets the context of 
the file system, not the mount point. You can specify the context as 
part of the mount command. (see the context option of the mount 
command in the mount man page.)

Mikkel
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