On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 13:37 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote: > hi all, > > Having had a great time with Fedora FC5, I decided it was time I got to > know something about this SELinux stuff. So I did a clean install of > FC5, completely updated it and proceeded to try and get Samba going to > dole out services to my windoze machines. > > I had a problem in that home directories were not accessible (permission > denied) from the windoze boxen. I did a little playing with the FC5 > security configurator and discovered a boolean to enable samba to access > home directories, and then made that permanent using setsebool. > > Now it comes to printing. I have tried every conceivable combination of > samba settings to no avail..windoze boxen cannot print to the smb printer. > > I suspect that SELinux policies are somehow constraining this in much > the same way as the problem I had with accessing home directories. > > Am I on the right track?.....point me in the right direction please :) ---- If the problem were selinux, you would see 'avc denied' errors in /var/log/messages - I don't think that is the problem though. add this or something like it in /etc/samba/smb.conf load printers = yes show add printer wizard = yes printcap = cups cups options = raw printing = cups printer admin = @"Domain Administrators" use client driver = yes [printers] comment = Network Printers printer admin = @"Print Operators" path = /var/spool/samba guest ok = yes printable = yes writable = no read only = Yes [print$] path = /home/printers guest ok = Yes browseable = Yes read only = Yes printer admin = root Administrator write list = root create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 mkdir /var/spool/samba chmod 777 /var/spool/samba chmod +t /var/spool/samba # someone can probably tell us the octal equivalent that would # change the above 2 lines to one line mkdir /home/printers and since you are going to allow 'raw' printing, you have to enable raw printing within cups... remove the comment mark (the #) from /etc/cups/mime.convs application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - remove the comment mark (the #) from /etc/cups/mime.types application/octet-stream per the instructions in each file, restart cups... /sbin/service cups restart probably unnecessary but restart samba... /sbin/service smb restart and you should be good to go Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list