Changing home broke samba

Rick Stevens rstevens at corp.alldigital.com
Wed Apr 4 20:31:51 UTC 2012


On 04/04/2012 01:20 PM, Rod McCown wrote:
> Running samba on F14 so that my wife can use her home directory as extra
> space for her XP desktop. I recently got some SCSI drives and an
> UltraIII card, so I mirrored 2 of the drives, copied the home
> directories to the mirrored device, changed the /etc/fstab, rebooted
> successfully with home directories on a mirrored device, but samba is
> now broken and I'm having a hard time getting it to work again. smb.conf
> only wanted to see "/home/<user>" and that didn't change. Any ideas why?

Check and see if you're getting SELinux denials. Unless you used "cp -a" 
or "cp --preserve=all" simply copying files doesn't copy the
SELinux contexts.

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