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I mounted a new drive on /New_drive my CentOS 5.7 box running Samba (3.0.33-3.29) and configured in fstab as follows:

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
**/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 /New_drive     ext3    defaults        1 1**

I have two folders already shared and accessed via samba.

I have user smbuser having full access to these folder from windows machines. The smb.conf file has following configuration:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================

[global]

        workgroup = lab
        server string = Samba-server1
        coding system= euc
        client code page=932
        encrypt passwords=yes
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50
        security = user
        passdb backend = tdbsam
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
# Samba Files
        [share-lab]
        comment = Samba-files
        create mode=0777
        directory mode=0777
        path =/home/sambafiles
        writable = yes
        valid users = smbuser

#Samba backup  Files
        [Samba-Backup]
        comment = Backup
        create mode=0777
        directory mode=0777
        path =/home/sambabackup
        writable = yes
        valid users = smbuser

So, set the owner and of /New_drive as smbuser and give public acess to the folder. and added New lines to the smb.conf

#New Drive
        [New-drive]
        comment = New-drive
        create mode=0777
        directory mode=0777
        path =/New_drive/sambafiles
        writable = yes
        valid users = smbuser

But, the New-drive is seen from the windows machine and is not acessible. The log file recorded the error as 

smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1013)
  '/New_drive/sambafiles' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [Ohmi-New] Error was Permission denied

Can anyone suggest me the way to solve this problem?

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What are the permissions of /New_drive in the filesystem and does /New_drive/sambafiles exist? – James O'Gorman Dec 29 '11 at 21:16
James is correct in asking for the perms, what are the results of running ls -ld /New_drive/ /New_drive/sambafiles/. But on an off chance, is selinux running? What is the result of getenforce? – becomingwisest Dec 30 '11 at 0:33
@JamesO'Gorman thanx.. drwxrwxrwx 4 smbuser users 4.0K Jul 5 08:41 New_drive is the permission for the drive .. Of course i created '/New_drive/sambafiles' ssh via smbuser. – Bajib Dec 31 '11 at 8:52
@ChristopherEvans Thanks... i checked the permissions which looked like drwxrwxrwx 4 smbuser users 4096 Jul 5 08:41 /New_drive/ drwxrwxrwx 3 smbuser users 4096 Dec 30 05:02 /New_drive/sambafiles/ and the result of sestatus SELinux status: enabled SELinuxfs mount: /selinux Current mode: enforcing Mode from config file: enforcing Policy version: 21 Policy from config file: targeted – Bajib Dec 31 '11 at 9:00
@JamesO'Gorman thank you very much for the suggestion. I tried to run the command but the effort is in vain. When running semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t "/New_drive(/.*)?" the following error comes "apacheds homedir /var/lib/apacheds or its parent directory conflicts with a defined context in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts, /usr/sbin/genhomedircon will not create a new context. This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account. If it is a system account please make sure its login shell is /sbin/nologin. " – Bajib Jan 5 at 19:41
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It sounds like SELinux is blocking this.

The Fedora wiki entry has an entry on how to fix this. Essentially an extended attribute is needed for SELinux to allow non-default Samba shares.

chcon -t samba_share_t /New_drive
semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t "/New_drive(/.*)?"
restorecon -R -v /New_drive
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thank you very much for the suggestion @JamesO'Gorman – Bajib Jan 5 at 19:40
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