samba shares in FC4

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:36 +0700, Ali Akbar wrote:
> i'm with the same problem, and also this guy:
> http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1182205&page=1
> 
> On 2/25/06, Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > > Yes it was a typo.
> > > >
> > > > Your suggestion didn't help. I know I have the conf file right because
> > > > if I change the public share to something under / like /boot it works
> > > > fine. But because /data is a separate partition I'm having trouble.
> > >
> > > My initial thought was that it would be an SELinux issue, which could be
> > > fixed by doing:
> > >
> > > # chcon -R -t samba_share_t /data/public
> > >
> > > (see "man samba_selinux")
> > >
> > > but since you say it works for /boot I guess you've turned off SELinux.
> >
> > I miss spoke, I do have selinux on and couldn't share boot either. Since
> > I turned selinux off everything is working fine.
> >
> > I would like to have selinux. I did:
> > # chcon -R -t samba_share_t /data/public
> >
> > which didn't help. The man page has it slightly different. At least I know
> > what the problem is.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
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not sure that everyone has the same issue but the first place to start
is to allow samba users to use their home directories...

setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs=1

Craig