Fstab

Digital Wokan plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:41:42 -0700


No, since it includes my username on the Samba server.  But I can 
paraphrase the line from it for you...

//machinename/sharename /mnt/mountdir smbfs 
noauto,rw,fmask=777,dmask=777,username=guest% 0 0

Jon K wrote:

> I've been trying to do this myself, can you post your fstab for me?  thanks.
> 
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 17:39, Digital Wokan wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 02 July 2002 14:29, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
>>
>>>In my fstab file, for an smb share what entry do I need to give all users
>>>read/write privileges?
>>>
>>after the smbfs (file system type) entry, make sure the following are added
>>to the options field: rw,fmask=777,dmask=777
>>
>>It took me most of an afternoon of hunting between man pages and google to
>>finally get that answer.  This is the kind of setting that needs more
>>documentation and examples for sysadmins to study.  (Including the usual
>>warnings about potential security hazards from using those settings.)
>>
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