VsFTP help !! mount --bind giving a hard time ...

[prosen]

I am using FC4 with winXP dual boot ..
I am trying to setup a good vsftp config ...

I have 4 win partitions, heres how I mount thm in fstab :

/dev/hda1               /mnt/windows/C:         ntfs    ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda5               /mnt/windows/D:         vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda6               /mnt/windows/E:         vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda7               /mnt/windows/F:         vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

now I keep all my vsftp users dir at /home/ftp , for eg. /home/ftp/ftproot is for user myguest, etc.

[root@knobarrion prosenjit]# ls -l /home/ftp
total 24
dr-xrwx---  3 debuda   ftpusr 4096 Sep 27 23:14 debuda
dr-xrwx---  3 myguest  ftpusr 4096 Sep 27 00:42 ftproot
dr-xrwx---  2 winguest ftpusr 4096 Sep 27 00:39 ftpwin
[root@knobarrion prosenjit]#

At this point .. if I connect to my ftp, it works fine :

[prosenjit@knobarrion ~]$ ftp 10.109.1.51
Connected to 10.109.1.51.
220 Welcome to ThePro's FTP service.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (10.109.1.51:prosenjit): debuda
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

Now I want to share some folders in my win drives by linking them in the ftp dirs ..
I am trying to use mount --bind ...

[root@knobarrion prosenjit]# mount --bind /mnt/windows/D\:/fc4/ /home/ftp/debuda/

Now .. however .. the permissions of the /home/ftp/debuda dir changes ..

[root@knobarrion ftp]# ls -l /home/ftp
total 20
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root   4096 Sep 27 17:44 debuda
dr-xrwx---  3 myguest  ftpusr 4096 Sep 27 00:42 ftproot
dr-xrwx---  2 winguest ftpusr 4096 Sep 27 00:39 ftpwin
[root@knobarrion ftp]#

at this point I can browse or change into the debuda directory as any user .. however I am not able to login via ftp ..

[prosenjit@knobarrion ~]$ ftp 10.109.1.51
Connected to 10.109.1.51.
220 Welcome to ThePro's FTP service.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (10.109.1.51:prosenjit): debuda
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp/debuda
Login failed.
ftp>

Can nebody tell me whats happening and provide an appropriate solution ?? I previously used vsftpd on RH9 with similar configs with success .. why is it not working now ??
Please Note : I have SELinux enabled. Also in my vsftpd.conf, I am using local_umask=022 , local_enable=YES , chroot_local_user=YES , etc.
Thanks in advance for all the help ...

[prosen]

well .. looks like I have to solve it myself !!!

neway .. here's my solution .. it was indeed SELinux which was posing the trouble .. so I configured SELinux to bypass/ignore ftp and http servers ...

As root,
# togglesebool ftpd_disable_trans
# togglesebool httpd_disable_trans

Rebooted .. and voila !!! it started working to my whims !!!!