Jeff! You're my new best friend! Thank you!
This is so sweet... I've now been able to convert about 30 of our
employees completely over to Linux (which is actually running off of a
Linux Terminal Server). And that's just the beginning! BWAAAAA!!!
HAAAAAAAA!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
~M
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
> I have lines like this in my /etc/fstab for mounting Windows shares to my
> Linux workstation:
>
> //ms_file_server/share_name /mnt/share_name smbfs
> noauto,user,username=ntuser,workgroup=NT_DOMAIN_NAME 0 0
>
> The "user" option means that a non-root user is able to mount that
> filesystem. To mount that share, the user would just have to type "mount
> /mnt/sharename" and then enter their Windows password. All of the files in
> that filesystem will then be owned by the user who mounted it.
>
> ~Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Alexander [mailto:m@netpro.to]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:53 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Connecting Linux desktop users to a Windows file server?
> >
> >
> > I need to figure out how our brand spankin' new Linux desktop
> > systems can
> > connect to our Windows file server. I can smbmount the
> > shares as root,
> > but I need the users to be able to have all the same
> > permissions they'd
> > have if they were connecting from a Windows desktop. Right
> > now all the
> > remote files end up being owned by root (obviously). Any
> > suggesions? Or
> > pointers to a good How-To?
> > Thanks,
> > ~M
> >
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