[wellylug] user mounting smbfs, fstab

Dale Smith dalees at paradise.net.nz
Mon May 2 23:10:31 NZST 2005


Hi all,
I'm currently running Ubuntu64 and having an issue when trying to set up 
a few smbfs shares to mount easily via fstab.
So, i've made this entry in fstab:
//kaylee/mp3   /mnt/mp3   smbfs   ro,user,noauto   0   0

which should be ok from what i can see (and copied from the cdrom one ;-))

/mnt/mp3 exists, is owned by root, but has 777 permissions.

when i try to 'mount /mnt/mp3' user my normal username i get this message:
$ mount /mnt/mp3
Password:
cannot mount on /mnt/mp3: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1

initially i had a different error, so i've set the suid bit on 
/usr/bin/smbmnt as it told me to.

are there other options that i need to set in fstab to get this working 
properly?
uid, gid? (i've tried these, set to 1000 (my username), no change)

oh, it works fine with 'sudo mount /mnt/mp3' - but shouldn't it also 
allow normal users to?

thanks for any help you can provide,
Dale




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