Samba access denied for creation of files

[Paul Howarth]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have home directories set up for sharing with samba on an FC5 box.
>>From windows machines I can access the shares, read and write to
> existing files, but when I try to create a directory I get "access
> denied" messages. dmesg gives this:
> 
> audit(1145962448.002:180): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=25069
> comm="smbd" name=".Xauthority" dev=hda5 ino=10846572
> scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=file
> audit(1145962468.107:181): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=25069
> comm="smbd" name=4E657720466F6C646572
> scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir
> 
> So, something is not right with selinux. Any advice?

"man samba_selinux" will suggest:

# setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1

Paul.