I did an upgrade from FC3 to FC4. After the upgrade my client computer
stopped
being able to access the server files or login to via samba. The message
logs are as follows:
from log.client
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[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(219)
check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user
[myclient]\[user-client]@[myclient] with the new password interface
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(222)
check_ntlm_password: mapped user is: [server]\[user-client]@[myclient]
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:push_sec_ctx(256)
push_sec_ctx(0, 0) : sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 1
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] smbd/uid.c:push_conn_ctx(365)
push_conn_ctx(0) : conn_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 1
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(279)
startsmbfilepwent_internal: failed to set 0600 permissions on password
file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was Permission denied
.Unable to open passdb database.
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:pop_sec_ctx(386)
pop_sec_ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] auth/auth_sam.c:check_sam_security(257)
check_sam_security: Couldn't find user 'user-client' in passdb.
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(312)
check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [user-client] ->
[user-client] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER
[2005/09/17 21:23:54, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1334)
timeout_processing: End of file from client (client has disconnected).
from /var/log/messages
Sep 17 21:28:30 myserver kernel: audit(1127006910.225:1850): avc:
denied { setattr } for pid=8692 comm="smbd" name="smbpasswd" dev=hda2
ino=82039 scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_etc_t tclass=file
Sep 17 21:28:30 myserver smbd[8692]: [2005/09/17 21:28:30, 0]
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(279)
Sep 17 21:28:30 myserver smbd[8692]: startsmbfilepwent_internal:
failed to set 0600 permissions on password file /etc/samba/smbpasswd.
Error was Permission denied
Sep 17 21:28:30 myserver smbd[8692]: .Unable to open passdb database.
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I suspect that it has something to do with selinux. Howver I am not sure
what to do.
Thanks for your help.
Avram
