Smbmount for Normal Users

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:35, Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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.
> 
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Yeah, I think that you have to escape the backslash but I think you can
just fake it with the forward slash...

smbmount //lnx1/steve /lnx1

but I don't use smbmount...I use mount

mount -t smbfs -o username=what_ever_user_name,password=users_password
//lnx1/steve /lnx1

Craig