[wellylug] Linux as a Samba client.

[Jethro Carr]

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 22:03, jumbophut wrote:
> On 5/29/05, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > hi all,
> > 
> > I'm setting up a linux pc for my brother, and need some help with samba.
> > 
> > 
> > I've added the following entry to /etc/fstab:
> > //jessie/music  /mnt/jessie-music       smbfs   username=mitchell,password=<password>   0       0
> > 
> > It works, but only for root. The normal user can't mount or write it.
> > 
> > //jessie/music  /mnt/jessie-music       smbfs   username=mitchell,password=<password>   0       0
> 
> You could try something like:
> 
> username=mitchell,password=<password>,uid=your_brother's_uid,umask=000
> 
> That should make your brother the owner (as far as the client is
> concerned) of all the files on //jessie/music.

thanks Tony & Jamie,

unfortunally I still can't get the normal user to be able to mount it,
and I get the message:
------------------------
cannot mount on /mnt/jessie-music: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1
-------------------------

It seems to occur with other filesystems too. CDROM & floppy work fine,
but I tried using SHFS, which I just found - really cool, lets you
'mount' a ssh connection and use it like a file system!

However, I get the same message, when I try to mount as a normal user.

I've tried giving smbmnt and mount chmod +s, but it doesn't fix it. :-(.


any ideas?


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-- Jethro Carr

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