Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20001203191704.01f51110@claborn.net> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:23:31 -0600 From: wilson@claborn.net (Jonathan Wilson) Subject: Re: [SLE] Using remote smb share via fstab? I have been fighting with this problem for ages and I wish someone could get me a real answer. Everything works except one thing:users can't mount the smb share, even though I have "user" in the fstab options. I have tried fiddleing with the perms on mount, smbmount, and so on, but all I get is stuff like this: [jw@garnet jw]$ mount /mnt/Cschomeserver/ cannot mount on /mnt/Cschomeserver: Operation not permitted smbmnt failed: 1 mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mnt/Cschomeserver: Invalid argument Here's my fstab line: //cschomeserver/servere /mnt/Cschomeserver smbfs noauto,username=anyone,password=,user 0 0 I've also used "smb" instead of "smbfs". mount /mnt/Cschomeserver works PERFECTLY fine for root, either way, but never as any regular user. Does anyone know what it takes to make smbshares user-mountable? I should note that this is on a Red Hat system (sorry....). IMHO it should hardly matter :-( <p> JW <p>At 02:38 PM 12/3/2000 +0100, you wrote:

On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:03:56AM +0100, Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:

...

I have a short question (actually two questions):

Is it possible to make an entry in /etc/fstab, so that I can have my roommates Win98 shares mounted automatically?

If it is, what should the entry look like?

I tried looking at the manpages for: - fstab - mount - smbmount - smbmnt without getting any useful hints.

Regards

Ole

Example from my own fstab

# Windows stuff on "giles" # //giles/u /giles/u smbfs auto,username=billy,password=gates 0 0 //giles/root /giles smbfs auto,username=bigus,password=bucks 0 0

Cliff

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Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20001205002026.03473a48@claborn.net> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 00:24:01 -0600 From: wilson@claborn.net (Jonathan Wilson) Subject: Re: [SLE] Using remote smb share via fstab?+as non-root user? At 06:36 AM 12/4/2000 -0500, you wrote:

Jonathan Wilson wrote:

...

I have been fighting with this problem for ages and I wish someone could get me a real answer.

Everything works except one thing:users can't mount the smb share, even though I have "user" in the fstab options. I have tried fiddleing with the perms on mount, smbmount, and so on, but all I get is stuff like this:

[jw@garnet jw]$ mount /mnt/Cschomeserver/ cannot mount on /mnt/Cschomeserver: Operation not permitted smbmnt failed: 1 mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mnt/Cschomeserver: Invalid argument

Here's my fstab line:

//cschomeserver/servere /mnt/Cschomeserver smbfs noauto,username=anyone,password=,user 0 0

I've also used "smb" instead of "smbfs".

mount /mnt/Cschomeserver works PERFECTLY fine for root, either way, but never as any regular user.

Does anyone know what it takes to make smbshares user-mountable?

I should note that this is on a Red Hat system (sorry....). IMHO it should hardly matter :-(

JW

You might try adding the users to the group disk if you haven't already??

That was a great idea, sadly it didn't work. Any other ideas? Buy the way none of those binaries are owned by the group disk, should they be? [jw@garnet jw]$ ls -ld /bin/mount -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 56208 Feb 3 2000 /bin/mount [jw@garnet jw]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/smbmount -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 258160 May 17 2000 /usr/bin/smbmount [jw@garnet jw]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/smbmnt -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 251728 May 17 2000 /usr/bin/smbmnt [jw@garnet jw]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/smbumount -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 250704 May 17 2000 /usr/bin/smbumount <p>I think I remember adding the ug+s bit myself. Didn't want to set that on world though :-/

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