Smbmount for Normal Users

[Steve Holmes]

Yea, but you have to be root to use the mount command...  The only
time I've been able to use mount as normal user is when the entry is
already in /etc/fstab.

Also, I can use smbmount //lnx1/steve or whatever sharename as root
without any trouble.

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:33:16PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> -----
> 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
> 
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