# chcon -R -t samba_share_t src

hasn't helped either

On 25/04/11 09:49, Alexander Farber wrote:

Hello,

I was using CentOS 5.5 as a "playground" VM at my WinXP notebook and now I'm migrating to a new CentOS 5.6 install and everything has worked well - except samba.

I have this very permissive config to export my ~/src dir:

# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] guest ok = yes guest account = afarber security = share hosts allow = 172.16.6. 127.0.0.1

[src] path = /home/afarber/src public = yes writable = yes printable = no

But in the new install it has stopped working and prints:

# tail /var/log/samba/smbd.log [2011/04/25 01:36:37, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1013) '/home/afarber/src' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [src] Error was Permission denied

I've checked permissions and installed rpms - they're all the same (and smbd runs as "root", doesn't it?)

Is this maybe a SELinux setting problem?

# tail /var/log/audit/audit.log (only at the new VM) type=AVC msg=audit(1303720863.712:53): avc: denied { search } for pid=6737 comm="smbd" name="/" dev=sda3 ino=2 scontext=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tclass=dir

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1303720863.712:53): arch=c000003e syscall=4 success=no exit=-13 a0=2b79380c9620 a1=7fff35dfe9f0 a2=7fff35dfe9f0 a3=ea items=0 ppid=6543 pid=6737 auid=500 uid=500 gid=0 euid=500 suid=0 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=0 fsgid=500 tty=(none) ses=2 comm="smbd" exe="/usr/sbin/smbd" subj=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 key=(null)

# ls -aldZ /home/afarber/src (same result at both old and new VMs) drwxrwxr-x afarber afarber user_u:object_r:user_home_t /home/afarber/src

# ls -aldZ /home/afarber/ drwx------ afarber afarber user_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t /home/afarber/

Does anybody please know a magic command here?

Thank you Alex

Alex,

Try the following command, and make sure it's set to "on" to allow users home dirs to be shared by samba:

$ /usr/sbin/getsebool -a | grep samba_enable_home_dirs samba_enable_home_dirs --> on

If not, you can turn it on with:

setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs on

See here for more information:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/SelinuxBooleans