Cannot write to /etc/samba/smb.conf. Program will now exit.

[John Dennis]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:24, DAVID BENTLEY wrote:
> I set all of my SAMBA shares up before doing any
> updates and now if I try to edit them or add new
> shares I get the following error message :-
> 
> Cannot write to /etc/samba/smb.conf.  Program will now
> exit.
> 
> I will see if it works in the original kernel next but
> I am surprised that there has been no mention of this
> before now.

Are you getting SELinux messages (e.g. audit(*): avc:) in
/var/log/messages about access denied? If so you're running afoul of the
SELinux security policy. If you're running >= FC3t2 SELinux targeted
policy is in effect. What is the avc message?
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>