Connecting Linux desktop users to a Windows file server?

[Matt Alexander]

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.
>
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> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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