non root user access to smbmount shares

[Matthew Hallam]

Mark Spieth writes :

> Here's the problem we are having, We are mounting a share from a
> WinNT 4.0 SP3 box to our redhat 5.0   2.0.32 box using the following
> command:
>
> smbmount //zues/raid1 /ISO/raid1 -I pooh.shellserv.com -u 507 -g 250 -
> c winterhawk -U sambausr
>
> The mount works fine but here is the permissions that I end up with
> d---------   1 mspieth  root          512 Dec 31  1969 raid1 
>
> it doesnt change the group ID no matter what I set it to, so no one
> but root can enter the directory. 

You need to upgrade your smbfs to smbfs-2.0.1-2,

Check out :
 
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh50-errata-general.html#ncpfs,smbfs

Matt
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