Samba Config

[Matt Alexander]

Hi Tom,
Keep plugging away at this and you'll eventually figure it all out.  Not
only does Linux increase your IQ, but it also builds character!  err,
somethin' like that.  But, alas, I digress...
In any case, here's the deal...  you need to be the owner of the device
you're trying to mount, so for example, if you wanted your regular user
account, "tom", to be able to mount /dev/hda7, then you could "chown tom
/dev/hda7" and then tom could mount and umount /dev/hda7 to his heart's
content.  But, you're trying to mount a remote share that you're not the
owner of and as far as I know, there's no way for a regular user to do
this (unless you hacked the mount command).  So, your best option is to
just pop up a shell and login as root to mount the Windows share when you
need it.  I suppose this could also be scripted and an icon could be
created on the desktop to do all of this automatically for you, but I'll
leave that as an exercise for the reader.  ;-)
~M



On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Tom Achtenberg wrote:

> This worked for the most part.  The windows shares show up on the desktop as
> icons, but the are not mounted.  When I try to mount them I get an error
> saying only root can mount them.  It is too late tonight to work on this,
> but I do not expect this to be too big a problem.  Thanks to all who helped
> me on this portion of my learning.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Alexander" <m@netpro.to>
> To: "PLUG Phoenix Linux Users Group" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Samba Config
>
>
> Hi Tom,
> I'm going from memory here, but I believe the fstab line would be
> something like this:
>
> //windowsbox/windowsshare   /yourmntpoint   smbfs    defaults    0 0
>
> So here's how your fstab works:  Field 1 is the device or remote
> filesystem, field 2 is where you want the device or remote filesystem
> mounted, field 3 is the filesystem type, field four is any options,
> and fields 5 and 6 are for dump and fsck.  If your Windows share allows
> anonymous access, then this should work for you.  If, however, you have to
> login to access your shares, then you'll probably have to put your
> username/password in the options field.
> ~M