Smbmount for Normal Users

[Alan Dayley]

Steve Holmes wrote:

>Hey, I'm trying to do smbmounts as a normal user so I can access my
>home directory on my server.  When I do the following,
>smbmount //lnx1/steve /lnx1
>I get the following response;
>cannot mount on /lnx1: Operation not permitted
>smbmnt failed: 1
>
>I set the setuid flag on smbmnt as suggested by the program when I
>tried it the first time and got a different error.  The share name is
>'steve' which is my user dir on the server and /lnx1, the local mount
>point is like any other mount point owned by root.  I know that normal
>mounts can't usually be done by normal users but I think for mounting
>user shares, this is the only way to go.
>
>Am I missing something here?  Is this possible?  BTW, I'm running
>Slackware 9.0 with a 2.4.20 kernel.
>
>  
>
Try:

smbmount \\\\lnx1\\steve /lnx1

Been there.  Fought that.

Alan