[wellylug] Linux as a Samba client.

[Geraint Jones]

//jessie/music  /mnt/jessie-music       smbfs
username=mitchell,password=<password>   0       0

Should read

//jessie/music  /mnt/jessie-music       smbfs
username=mitchell,password=<password>,user   0       0

The user part specifies that one need not be in the root group to mount

Cheers

Geraint

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jethro Carr
Sent: Monday, 30 May 2005 7:55 p.m.
To: WellyLUG Mailing
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Linux as a Samba client.

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 18:47, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 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.
:-(.

fixed! (kind of)

I've fixed the problem with a kinda-nasty solution with sudo, but it
works fine for 1 user.

the only problem is not any user can just mount it. :-( However, it's a
1 user machine so it's not too much of a problem.


-- 
-- Jethro Carr

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