Changing home broke samba

Rod McCown rodmccown at aircanopy.net
Wed Apr 4 23:26:21 UTC 2012


That was exactly it. Now I have to work through SELinux getting perms
correct on the home directories. Thanks!
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On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 13:31 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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