On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 17:42 -0500, Erwin J. Prinz wrote:
> There is
> something broken in SElinux with respect to samba. I can start smbd and
> nmbd daemons, but I can't print via samba, and I can't access user
> directories either from windows98, or via "smbclient". There are error
> messages in audit.log such as:
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1120010995.261:14912381): avc: denied { write }
> for pid=14117 comm="smbd" name=[22081] dev=pipefs ino=22081
> scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t
> tclass=fifo_file
>
> which I think mean that SElinux interferes with samba. Until this is
> fixed, I have set
> SELINUX=permissive
> in /etc/selinux/config
> which allows samba to work as it used to in Fedora Core 3.
Try:
$ man man samba_selinux
There are some selinux booleans you need to set if you want to share
directories using samba in FC4.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
