On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Okay I'm getting better at this samba stuff but still have a few issues. I want to mount a windows share on this box. I don't want typical users to be able to mound devices on this box. So only root can mount a dev. I need to change to another username however to access the share. if I was using smbmount directly I would do something like
> /usr/sbin/smbmount //windowsBox/shareName username=Carl
> 
> however smbmount doesn't seem to be working and I think someone on the list showed me that I should be using mount -t smbfs anyways so I tried something like 
> 
> mount -t smbfs //windowsBox/shareName /targetDir username=Carl
> 
> But that's not working either. Anyone know what syntax I should be using to change the username used to access the box. 
> 
> btw smbclient is working fine with
> smbclient //windowsBox/shareName -U Carl
> 
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Here is an example using mount -t smbfs... on my system (mounting a 
windows share on linux):

--> mount -t smbfs -o username=sbrews //defiant/source /mnt
Password:
 
Since the share is password protected and I didnt specify it, I was 
prompted for it. You could also specify the password on the command like 
this:

--> mount -t smbfs -o username=sbrews,password=passwd //defiant/source /mnt

Of course, the downside is that anyone shoulder surfing can see your 
password - as well as it now being in your command history.

scott

ps - I was root when the mount commands were issued.