SOLVED: [Samba] can't write to writeable drives FC4

[Bill Measday]

Thanks Sanjay, that does it!!!  I thought of SELinux but discounted it
(unfortunately) based on the assumption that there would be lots of FC4
upgrades by now and therefore this would be well known.

PLEASE NOTE:
You do not need to totally disable SELinux - there is a utility called
system-config-securitylevel (this is the same graphical tool one gets
under Gnome "security level".  The SELinux tab lets you turn off
enforcement for specific daemons.  You only need to turn it off for smdb
(or at least that works for me).

Problem solved!

Thanks everyone who helped

Rgds

Bill

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 10:15 +0530, Sanjay Upadhyay wrote: 
> check selinux... (FC4 has it by default!)
> #>getenforce...
> in case this returns 1...
> diable it...
> 
> On 8/3/05, Bill Measday <linux_test at measday.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I think the relevant processes are listed below Pavel.
> > 
> > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> > root 6264 1 0 Aug02 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
> > root 6265 6264 0 Aug02 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
> > root 6267 1 0 Aug02 ? 00:00:03 nmbd -D
> > bill 12214 4916 0 07:00 pts/2 00:00:00 smbclient //host/test
> > -Ubill%deleted password
> > bill 12215 6264 0 07:00 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
> > root 12216 6264 0 07:00 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
> > 4776 0 07:01 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -Af
> > 
> > 
> > Rgds
> > 
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:22 +0200, Pavel Vávra wrote:
> > > Well, could you check ... sorry I am not able describe it in English, 
> > I'll write it in Bash language :-) 
> > >
> > > > ps -Af | grep
> > >
> > > ... and check UID of selected processes.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > P.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:24:34 +1000
> > > Bill Measday < linux_test at measday.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > And therein lies the problem - I've tried all these simple things and
> > > > the answer is eluding me (in other words, no problem creating 
> > directory
> > > > directly from bash) 
> > > >
> > > > Rgds
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bill
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:12 +0200, Pavel Vávra wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:31:35 +1000
> > > > > Bill Measday < linux_test at measday.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > What about permissions and owner of /data/bill?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > P. 
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > drwxrwxrwx 4 bill net_users 4096 Jul 31 07:45 bill
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It doesn't seem to be anything quite as trivial as permissions, 
> > but 
> > > > > > then, who knows?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, log to this machine as linux user bill and try to create file 
> > and directory in /data/bill. If it will not work, check permissions of 
> > /data. If it will work, I cannot find simple answer why.
> > > > > P.
> > > >
> > > >
> > 
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