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 your Linux OS, and shared with Windows on other boxes via Samba, then > the shared filesystem should be ext3 or ext4 (F11) and then selinux can > label the files correctly and it should work. The other Windows boxes > will see it only through Samba and do not need to know whether it is or > is not ntfs. > > If you intend to dual boot the system with the ntfs partition and boot > into windows on that hardware sometimes, then you need to keep the > filesystem as ntfs. > > In the latter case you will not be able to set selinux labelling on the > subdirectories and files in that filesystem, only for the mount point. Christopher I do want to dual boot and use the disk on windows. However, when I tried the same chcon command with the folder path replaced by the mount point /media/Backup, I got the same errors. Thanks for your reply, Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
