Thanks for answering my post, Josef. Unfortunately, I'm getting exactly the same AVC denial and message when trying to access the drive from vmware. The odd thing is, I can access my home directory from vmware without problem. The /etc/fstab entry now reads: /dev/sdd1 /mnt/media ntfs-3g rw,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=500,gid=1000,context=system_u:system_r:samba_share_t 0 0 Thanks, Craig On Dec 15, 2007 7:10 PM, Josef Kubin <jkubin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Craig, > > Craig Niederberger wrote: > > Hi Fedora SELinux gurus, question from a very perplexed newbie. > > > > I'm trying to access an external ntfs-3g drive from vmware on Fedora, > > with the drive seen through vmware as a networked samba drive. I have > > Fedora 8 as the host, VMware Workstation 6.0.2 with Windows XP Pro as > > the guest OS, and SELinux set to enforcing. > > > > I have the host visible as a networked drive in My Network Places on > > the guest, and can access files in my Fedora 8 home directory, so > > SELinux is at least allowing that. > > > > The external ntfs-3g drive that I'd like to also access is visible in > > My Network Places on the guest. However, whenever I click on it, I get > > an SELinux AVC Denial, which says SELinux is preventing the samba > > daemon from serving r/o local files to remote clients, and tells me > > that I need to turn on the samba_export_all_ro boolean, which is > > already on. > > > > The raw audit message that I get in the SELinux popup is: > > avc: denied { read } for comm=smbd dev=sdd1 name=/ pid=4347 > > scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tclass=dir > > tcontext=system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0 > > > > I have mounted the ntfs-3g drive so that it matches the ownership of > > my home drive, e.g. the fstab entry is: > > /dev/sdd1 /mnt/media ntfs-3g rw,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=500,gid=1000 0 0 > > Did you tried to mount your drive with proper context? > > /dev/sdd1 /mnt/media ntfs-3g > rw,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=500,gid=1000,context=system_u:system_r:samba_share_t > 0 0 > > > $ ls -al media > > total 233 > > drwxrwxrwx 1 craign family 4096 2007-12-12 23:04 . > > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-12-02 14:13 .. > > drwxrwxrwx 1 craign family 0 2007-09-16 11:31 Craig > > ... > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > Many TIA, > > Craig > > > > > -- > > fedora-selinux-list mailing list > > fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list > > Cheers, > Josef Kubin > > -- > fedora-selinux-list mailing list > fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list > -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list