[olug] smbmount and fstab

[David Walker]

Use sudo to allow ordinary users to mount the drive

Make a bash script to mount the drive and give the ericp user permission in 
sudo to run that bash script with no password (so the user cannot pass in 
extra options or anything).

Or if ericp will be doing lots of smbmounting and you trust ericp give ericp 
permission to smbmount or mount itself.

On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:49 am, Andrew Holm-Hansen wrote:
> 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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