Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Brian Durant <durant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 23:23, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
- Firstly, are you sure you have installed Samba (including smbclient?).  Do
- rpm -qa | grep samba
- to find out.
-
Only smbclient is installed. I saw no reason to install the whole package as 
the rest of my family are more novices than even I am ;-)
-
- Second, is the smbfs module loaded.  Find out by doing
- lsmod
- If it is not, (as root) do
- modprobe smbfs
- to load it.  I think you need to add a line to
- /etc/init.d/boot.local
- to do this automatically at boot, but others here will be more
 knowledgeable - on this.
-
No, the smbfs module was not loaded. can anyone on the list confirm these 
instructions, maybe with a little more detail? I don't want to end up not 
being able to boot my system ;-)
-
- Thirdly, make smbmnt and smbumount suid root, so that ordinary users can
 use - them.  As root, do
- chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt
- chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbumount
- I am sure there are some security implications in this (which others may
- perhaps be kind enough to point out), but it may be sensible to get the
 thing - working first and then worry about them.
-
I am again not sure I want to do this (as per installing all of SAMBA) but am 
willing to consider it on advice from the list.

Cheers,

Brian