Connecting Linux desktop users to a Windows file server?

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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: Connecting Linux desktop users to a Windows file server?
For regular users, you could just have them mount it in their own home
directory. For example,

smbmount //server/share /home/lnewton/myhappymountpoint -o username=lnewton


On Thu, 16 May 2002, Lynn David Newton wrote:

>
> Okay, I answered my own question ...
>
> Lynn> $ mount /mnt/work
> Lynn> Password:
> Lynn> cannot mount on /mnt/work: Operation not permitted
> Lynn> smbmnt failed: 1
>
> The problem was that I needed to own the mount point
>
> $ su
> # chown lnewton. /mnt/work
> Ctrl-D
> $ mount /mnt/work
>
> did the trick. That's a gotcha for my notes file.
>
> --
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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