On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:08 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote: > >First step in diagnosing whether or not a problem is SELinux is to try: > > > ># setenforce 0 > > > >If the problem goes away then it's SELinux. If not, look elsewhere for > >the problem. > > > >Paul. > > Paul: > > Thanks for your reply. I worked on it some more last night and found > a relavent article somewhere on the net. The article said when > creating share files with the gui samba control program that since > FC4 it didn't set the selinux context correctly. So I set the > directory to system_u:object_r:samba_share_t. It works fine now. > Both directions. I do have a question though, who should own the > share directory. When root owned it it didn't work but I changed the > owner to nobody it worked. ---- that sort of makes sense since you are running the shares as user 'nobody' - this is just one of many peculiar aspects of using 'security = share' modes...which I have never done. Craig