Comments on: How to build a dirt easy home NAS server using Samba

by: Jon

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:58:05 +0000

Can you run this on Fedora?

by: Stefan Murariu

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:47:00 +0000

I used this setup and I love it.
Just did the missing part (`chcon -t samba_share_t /my_sharepoint/`) and restarted manualy the smbd. Didn’t worked with `chkconfig smb on service smb start`. This newbie guide forgot to mention that nmb should be up.
But overall, if you don’t use linux just for kopete this article is a very good start for samba newbies.
Btw, which is the difference between samba_share_t and samba_var_t (as sas says)?

by: Carl

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:16:10 +0000

“Most of Linux is like a swiss army knife,……”

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by: Noah Gift

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:25:50 +0000

Nice Catch Harjit. You guys are obviously paying attention to the fine details which is great! Anyone using this setup and like it? FYI, this should theoretically work on OS X Leopard and Windows Vista as well, but I can neither confirm or deny.

by: Harjit

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:40:30 +0000

Fat Finger:
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 (only allows this subnet to connect i.e. 192.168.0.1192.168.0.254)

Should be:
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 (only allows this subnet to connect i.e. 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.254)

by: sas

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:51:59 +0000

To make share from your home dir:

#setsebool samba_enable_home_dirs 1
#setsebool use_samba_home_dirs 1

by: sas

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:45:45 +0000

To bypass SELinux restriction you must relabel your share to samba_var_t. Under root use command:

# chcon -R -t samba_var_t /your_share

by: Noah Gift

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:49:07 +0000

SELinux was designed by the NSA, so in a nutshell it won’t be “Dirt Easy”. I would strongly advise not enabled SELinux on a home network as it will be quite a pain. On the other hand if you are running a machine in a data center, it is probably a good idea.

by: Hal Burns

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:06:36 +0000

I think SELinux prevents using a folder in the Home dir as a samba share. I got an error back from SELinux when I tried it. You can turn that part of security off.

by: Todd Lewis

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:27:23 +0000

This only works for me if I turn off SELinux. How do you make smb shares work like this with SELinux?