Mounting SMB shares without root

Marc R. Hoffman emulator at mac.com
Sun Jan 13 14:02:43 GMT 2002


How for the really big question...How do I set this up in the /etc/fstab 
so that the share auto-mounts without mounting in root? I can get it to 
mount, but without the root account, I can "look, but no touch"...

Thanks...

On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 03:14  PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

>> Mandrake Linux lets me do this with no problems. How do I set the smbmnt
>> attributes for non-root usage?
>
> chmod a+s /location/to/smbmnt
>
> (Security issues with installing SUID binaries, blah blah)
>
> Jelmer
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