[Techtalk] samba mounting by user

wendy wendy at laposte.net
Wed Dec 10 09:23:19 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 23:52, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> Hi, I want to mount a samba share as a normal user,
> I added the following to /etc/fstab
> 
> //sambaserver/homedir        /mnt/sambaserver        smbfs  
> noauto,rw,user,username=bla,password=bla,uid=500,gid=500,umask=775    0
> 0
> 
> when I want to mount as a normal user I get: 
> smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
> smbmnt failed: 1
> 
> I thougth adding the word user in the /etc/fstab options would be
> enough?
>  
> Does anyone know what I forgot?
> 

It could be the permissions on your smbmnt, sumbumount commands.

See for the following post:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/31/2003/08/4/86815

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/3/2003/03/2/47914


Wendy

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