[olug] smbmount and fstab

[Andrew Holm-Hansen]

Pardon the confusion.

It doesn't read the smb.conf.  If the samba share you're trying to 
connect to (or the windows share) doesn't allow you to modify the 
contents of the drive, one way of getting around this is (in linux) 
giving admin user rights to the person logging in.  This has to be done 
on the server side.  In Windows, you'd have to give the user full 
control on the particular share using Windows' permissions manager.

I think your best bet (as others have stated) is the sudo or setuid route. 

I definately did it the "wrong" way, but it also happens to work.

Andrew


Eric Penne wrote:

>I didn't think smbmount read smb.conf?  I thought smb.conf was only for
>the smbd server.
>
>Eric
>
>--- Andrew Holm-Hansen <olug at einer.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>I vaguely remember reading about a similar problem.  Won't smbmount
>>(by 
>>default)  only run for uid=root?  Another thing to check is your 
>>smb.conf ... You can explicitely state which users have 'root' 
>>privelages on the share with the
>>
>>admin users = user1, user2, user3
>>
>>directive.
>>
>>I think I solved this problem and forgot the solution because mine
>>just 
>>works... ;(  Sorry.  
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>Eric Penne wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I've partly figured out how to mount it as root and give the user
>>>permissions to write.
>>>
>>>smbmount //nt_le/ericp$ /directory -o credentials=file,uid=epenne
>>>
>>>I added the uid=epenne before but there was a space instead of a
>>>      
>>>
>>comma
>>    
>>
>>>and smbmount just ignored the uid flag.
>>>
>>>I still am not allowed to mount the drive without having root
>>>privileges.  Can anybody help?
>>>
>>>Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--- Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I'm having troubles mounting a device on an NT4 server and allowing
>>>>the
>>>>user (not root) to modify the filesystem.
>>>>
>>>>I want the user to be able to mount the filesystem when they login.
>>>>I have to send a username and password to the NT server.
>>>>I want the user to be able to modify and create files on the mount.
>>>>
>>>>I've added:
>>>>
>>>>//nt_le/ericp$ /home/epenne/fileserver/ericp smbfs
>>>>defaults,noauto,user,owner 0 0
>>>>
>>>>to the /etc/fstab
>>>>
>>>>when I try to mount it asks for a password which it takes the
>>>>username
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>from my login of epenne when I want it to login as ericp.
>>>      
>>>
>>>>where can I pass the credentials file to the mount command?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I've manually mounted this drive from root using the credentials
>>>>file.
>>>>The permissions on the drive were for root and user ericp couldn't
>>>>write anything to the directories on the mounted drive.
>>>>
>>>>What options do I have to pass the username and password to
>>>>        
>>>>
>>smbmount
>>    
>>
>>>>through /etc/fstab?
>>>>
>>>>Eric
>>>>
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