Forgive some of my dumbness, but where can one begin learning about
automount.  Do I need to install some packages or what? I have heard
of automount or autofs with regards to configuring the kernel but...

For simplest terms I'm really wanting to mount an SMB share with a
matching user name hence the need to be a normal user when I use
smbmount.  If I use the regular mount command, I *always* get the
error that root is required to do that.  When I did a setuid for
smbmnt, I get a bit further but I still get the "operation not
permitted error."

Are there any other ideas out there?

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:56:55AM -0700, David A. Sinck wrote:
> 
> 
> \_ SMTP quoth Craig White on 6/3/2003 23:33 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ but I don't use smbmount...I use mount
> \_ 
> \_ mount -t smbfs -o username=what_ever_user_name,password=users_password
> \_ //lnx1/steve /lnx1
> 
> I once solved this in what seemed more graceful to me, but ymmv.
> Sadly, the smb config wasn't important to me and when I gracefully
> parted ways with the company, I didn't think that 'hey, grab that smb
> config' in time.
> 
> It ran something along these lines:
> 
> automounted (via autofs and a custom program map) the smb share(s)
> using something like 'credentials=/home/sinck/.win-creds' in the automount
> map line produced.  In theory, that allowed the credentials to be
> chmod 400 and not published in the output of 'mount', IIRC.  
> 
> This was on a RH 7.1 (.2?) box and except for sawfish, I've never
> heard of features getting *dropped* once implemented.
> 
> Automounting was important because they kept publishing different
> shares as "the place" and I didn't want to remember the magic every
> time. 
> 
> Automounting distro cds is handy too.  Particularly if you have a
> forest of symlinks through the automounting to the packages in
> question.  (see cp -s)
> 
> 
> 
> David
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