In article <48B5662B.5020109@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bob Latham wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I want to setup a series of about a dozen folders that each have a > > Samba share associated with them. Then I would like to place all of > > those inside another folder that a super user can access and > > consequently all of the lower ranking shared folders below. > > > > I've been experimenting and the results have clearly shown that what I > > expected to be the case certainly isn't. I thought I could create the > > super user and samba share his/her folder then create the sub folders > > and samba share them. I then thought it would be a simple case of > > setting the folder permissions to suit the required users but this > > doesn't work. There is obviously a bit more to it. > > > > Anyone spare a few minutes to point me in the right direction on...? > > > > 1. How to give samba access to a folder that is not in /home/<user>. > > Or more specifically not the normal home directory.I can get shares to > > work from the normal home dirs. > > > > 2. How to get the super user access from above? > What are the permissions of the base folder? I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by 'base folder'. > If Samba does not have permission to get a directory of the folder, then > it can not access the folders inside. Yes, that is what I thought. What I did was to share a home directory and check that it worked for the specific user. Then changed the path in the smb.conf to another folder and copied the permissions from the original folder. I did this by right button clicking => properties => Permissions tab. It didn't work. > I normally use the dirm directory instead of folder. Right, that's fine directory it is then. > If you are running SELinux, you will also need to set the context of the > folders to system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 That's horrid! I don't have a clue what that means or how to do it. I'm sure I don't need SELinux at all but can't find a way to stop it running, certainly the services application doesn't list it as such. That would be too easy wouldn't it. When I was testing a shared home directory, it kept popping up a window telling me it had blocked connections but they still seem to work ok. How do you turn it off? Thanks for your help. Bob. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
