Samba - Win7 Cannot Access

[cebrimal]

It has been a long time since I've set up a samba server, but I don't remember it involving hours of frustration. Here's the situation:

Fedora 16

smb.conf

[global]
	workgroup = workgroup
	security = share
	guest ok = yes

[Videos]
	comment = Movies and TV
	path = /home/user/Videos
	read only = no
	guest ok = yes
;	browseable = yes

Firewall configured to allow both Samba and Samba Client

smbpasswd -an User

has been entered.

Try to access the share from the Windows 7 PC. First off, it does not detect the share as part of the workgroup, and I have to manually type in \\192.168.0.2 into explorer address bar. Once there, it sees the 'Videos' share, but clicking on it reads:

Windows cannot access \\192.168.0.2\Videos

You do not have the permission to access \\192.168.0.2\Videos. Contact your network administrator to request access.

I have been playing with it for a few hours and just want it to work. It's a simple file share.... or should be.

**EDIT** I should also mention that I have done a chmod -R 777 on the Videos folder just to try and eliminate everything. Once I get it working, I'll put all my securities back in.

[glennzo]

Open a terminal and try

PHP Code:

su
setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw 1 


See if you can access the share now. If not, try restarting samba first.

PHP Code:

systemctl restart smb.service
systemctl restart nmb.service 


After the restart it may take a few minutes for things to sync up.

Failing that, here's something else I've discovered. Might not hurt to give it a shot. Open a terminal and type

PHP Code:

[glenn@localhost ~>$ getsebool -a | grep samba
samba_create_home_dirs --> off
samba_domain_controller --> off
samba_enable_home_dirs --> off
samba_export_all_ro --> off
samba_export_all_rw --> off
samba_run_unconfined --> off
samba_share_fusefs --> off
samba_share_nfs --> off
sanlock_use_samba --> off
use_samba_home_dirs --> off
virt_use_samba --> off 


You're looking for the line that mentions samba_share_fusefs. You need to turn it on if it's off.

PHP Code:

sudo setsebool samba_share_fusefs on 


Try to access the Windows shares.

[cebrimal]

Thank you! I have no idea what that did, but it fixed it. It looks like it may have set some permissions on the directories where the Samba shares are. I don't know.... but it worked; that's the most important thing.

[glennzo]

What command did you use to fix it?

[cebrimal]

I used the first one you gave me.

[Sicinthemind]

Ahh, SELinux was preventing an action that has to be given explicit permissions for access. SELinux is a Mandatory Access Control system on top of a file permissions Discretionary Access Control.

Good to see this was resolved. Cheers!!