[SOLVED] F9: Sharing local NTFS file-systems under Samba

[Dan Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > I guess I need a little direction here.
> >
> > I have created an NTFS partition under F9, and noticed
> > that this partition upon login automatically FUSE mounts
> > to my desktop.  Ok, well, I did try to add  this partition to the
> > fstab. this partition to my /wApp1 directory but found that
> > there were conflicts in doing so - so I gave up at one point and
> > let the FUSE do it's job.
> >
> > But then later, I decided I wanted to samba-share this partition
> > and this is where I am perplexed.
> >
> > Although, I can use Nautilus to access/change these files in the wApp1
> > directories, but I also noticed that all directories and files are 
> 40777,
> > is set to fuse_t,  and it seems that there is no possible way for me to
> > chcon, chown, chmod anything therein in order to samba share anything
> > with any granularity (usr, group, other) and noticed that selinux 
> reports
> > that these dir/files are RO, cannot be shared, but that I can issue a
> > samba
> > boolean to share RO files which is not what I want to do - that is - to
> > samba-group share the dir/files as writeable and to a list of trusted
> > users.
> >
> > I have added trusted users to /etc/samba/smbuser file - but it seems 
> that
> > smbpasswd -a user has no effect (at least I cannot see where the 
> results
> > are saved, if at all) and I did use the System->Administration->Samba
> > tool to share the specific directories, with selected users, visable &
> > writable
> > but this did not seem to work either.
> >
> > I am not sure if I should let FUSE do it's work or to somehow not let
> > FUSE
> > "take over" and add the NTFS file-system to fstab.
> >
> > So, how should one go about properly setting up samba-shares of these
> > NTFS
> > file-systems?
> >
> Geez, with a little digging, I finally found out how to do it from:
> http://www.nabble.com/Can%27t-export-samba-share-td18570296.html
>
> Solution: setsebool -P samba_share_fusefs 1
>
> and you are done!  Amazing!
>
Hmm...  I wonder - if I or anyone else is not logged in, does that mean
my wApp1 is not fuse mounted and if so,  will the samba share fail?

Dan