My suggestion based on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard would be somewhere in /srv/ http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM> -- David On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net>wrote: > Everyone in the family has a digital camera or cell phone and they seem > to be leaving picture files all over their home folders, and laptops > with no sense of year/month/day taken or what they are about. > > Looking to consolidate all the family pics in one location on a samba > share on the primary workstation that happens to have 2TB of mirrored > storage. > > This is all behind a firewall that blocks smb protocols in and out, and > the iptables on the primary workstation will be set to only allow smb > to/from specific family laptops. > > I have read the manuals...so I know one can get samba and selinux to > dance together. > > But...I don't really want to set a boolean so that all the /home folders > can be shared. Would rather create a separate folder and give it the > correct selinux context, but there is a warning to be careful to not use > a "system folder" because they already have the proper selinux contexts. > > So...if one were to create a new folder and share it out via samba, > where would be the best location to create it so as to not conflict with > the selinux contexts of the distro? > > /usr/share? /usr/local/share? /usr/mnt? somewhere in /var? or > somewhere else? > > Dave M > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100824/3dd1222b/attachment-0004.html>