[SOLVED] Samba Home Shares Not Working in Red Hat 6.1

Stannley · 10-25-2011, 02:51 AM

Hi Guys

I am in the process of building a Red Hat 6.1 server and appear to have pretty much everything working except for the Samba Home shares.

Users are able to log in as themselves through Putty and their home directories are created automatically but they are unable to access those same folders through Windows (XP) Explorer. They receive the following error message:

Code:

\\rh6-scriptura\simon.tann is not accessible.  You might not have permission to use this network resource.  Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

smb.conf:

Code:

[global]
        workgroup = PFS
        realm = PFS.COM.AU
        server string = Samba Server Version %v
        security = ADS
        allow trusted domains = No
        password server = DCWA1.PFS.COM.AU DCWA2.PFS.COM.AU
        restrict anonymous = 2
        client NTLMv2 auth = Yes
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        os level = 0
        local master = No
        idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
        idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
        template homedir = /home/winnt/%D/%U
        template shell = /bin/bash
        winbind enum users = Yes
        winbind enum groups = Yes
        winbind use default domain = Yes
        cups options = raw

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        create mask = 0775
        inherit permissions = Yes
        browseable = No

Home directories have 755 permissions applied.

I am hoping that someone can see something stupid that I have set / not set in my configuration file.

Cheers

Simon

strick1226 · 10-25-2011, 10:23 AM

Could be an SELinux issue. I ran into a similar problem on a CentOS box setup a while back.

Code:

# sestatus | grep -i mode

If it tells you "enforcing" then you probably need to modify the SELinux parameters to enable sharing of home folders...

Code:

# setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1

Restart smb service and I think that will do it for you.

Hope this helps.

Stannley · 10-25-2011, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strick1226

Could be an SELinux issue. I ran into a similar problem on a CentOS box setup a while back.

Code:

# sestatus | grep -i mode

If it tells you "enforcing" then you probably need to modify the SELinux parameters to enable sharing of home folders...

Code:

# setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1

Restart smb service and I think that will do it for you.

Hope this helps.

Yep that was it! Thanks a lot mate, you have brought a long period of suffering to an end!

strick1226 · 10-26-2011, 09:05 AM

Glad to hear it! Cheers!