Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mike Adolf wrote: I don't think I can try it until I install the next version of Fedora. Why? Because just before I got your first email, I got pretty upset at selinux (I still think it is way to hard for the general user ). So, I disabled it. Everything shares great now, but I realize that

Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Adolf
I think I have samba set up correctly to share a linux folder within a windows WORKGROUP of PCs. The problem is selinux keeps denying access to the share and tells me that I can fix the problem using chcon -R -t samba_share_t 'myshare path' HOWEVER, when I try it, I get the following error for

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Mike Adolf wrote: Could the problem be due to the ntfs file system on the shared folder? If I change it to ext how does windows use it? Mike How does which windows use it? If the ntfs partition is solely mounted by your Linux OS, and shared with Windows on other boxes via Samba, then the

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Adolf
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:40 -0400, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: Could the problem be due to the ntfs file system on the shared folder? If I change it to ext how does windows use it? Mike How does which windows use it? If the ntfs partition is solely mounted by

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: I think I have samba set up correctly to share a linux folder within a windows WORKGROUP of PCs. The problem is selinux keeps denying access to the share and tells me that I can fix the problem using chcon -R -t samba_share_t 'myshare path' HOWEVER, when I try it, I get

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Adolf
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:17 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: I think I have samba set up correctly to share a linux folder within a windows WORKGROUP of PCs. The problem is selinux keeps denying access to the share and tells me that I can fix the problem using chcon

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:17 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Yes, the problem is the ntfs - it does not support SELinux attributes. You can fix the problem by add the context=system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 option to the fstab entry used to mount the ntfs partition.

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Adolf
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 18:42 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:17 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Yes, the problem is the ntfs - it does not support SELinux attributes. You can fix the problem by add the