[olug] smbmount and fstab

[Andrew Holm-Hansen]

I vaguely remember reading about a similar problem.  Won't smbmount (by 
default)  only run for uid=root?  Another thing to check is your 
smb.conf ... You can explicitely state which users have 'root' 
privelages on the share with the

admin users = user1, user2, user3

directive.

I think I solved this problem and forgot the solution because mine just 
works... ;(  Sorry.  

Andrew

Eric Penne wrote:

>I've partly figured out how to mount it as root and give the user
>permissions to write.
>
>smbmount //nt_le/ericp$ /directory -o credentials=file,uid=epenne
>
>I added the uid=epenne before but there was a space instead of a comma
>and smbmount just ignored the uid flag.
>
>I still am not allowed to mount the drive without having root
>privileges.  Can anybody help?
>
>Eric
>
>
>
>--- Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having troubles mounting a device on an NT4 server and allowing
>>the
>>user (not root) to modify the filesystem.
>>
>>I want the user to be able to mount the filesystem when they login.
>>I have to send a username and password to the NT server.
>>I want the user to be able to modify and create files on the mount.
>>
>>I've added:
>>
>>//nt_le/ericp$ /home/epenne/fileserver/ericp smbfs
>>defaults,noauto,user,owner 0 0
>>
>>to the /etc/fstab
>>
>>when I try to mount it asks for a password which it takes the
>>username
>>from my login of epenne when I want it to login as ericp.
>>
>>where can I pass the credentials file to the mount command?
>>
>>
>>I've manually mounted this drive from root using the credentials
>>file.
>>The permissions on the drive were for root and user ericp couldn't
>>write anything to the directories on the mounted drive.
>>
>>What options do I have to pass the username and password to smbmount
>>through /etc/fstab?
>>
>>Eric
>>
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