On 21/03/10 16:21, Toby Ovod-Everett wrote: > Now on to the "what broke" question. Somewhere in the last two months (it's > been a while since I've added photos), I lost the ability to use Samba to > access /data/photos. Generally I access it through a symlink in my homedir: > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 toby toby 12 2008-11-28 15:05 photos -> /data/photos > > This has stopped working. Things I tried: > * Verifying symlinks. I have Mail -> mail in my homedir and that still works. > * Verifying SELinux settings conform to above model. > * Creating a separate share for /data/photos. This worked. > > I Obviously have a workaround now, but as a solution it's annoying, because it > requires me to create separate shares for all of the things I want to access > from my Windows machine (/data/photos, /var/www/cgi-bin/photos, and > /var/www/html/public_html/toby) and then map to them all separately on my > Windows machine on separate drive letters, instead of having a single share > that accesses everything. In your samba config, do you have any settings for: unix extentions follow symlinks wide links I believe you need the following to be able to follow symlinks outside of the directory tree that is shared using samba: unix extensions = no follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes Paul. -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux
