Can't mount NT filesystem unless root

[Ho-Kuo Chan]

Thanks Nick and Rick for your input, I set suid on both smbmnt and smbumount
but it still failed. Here is the error message:
cannot mount on /mnt/shp3: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
Could not umount /mnt/theDirectory: Invalid argument

Thanks again for your help!

Nick Austin wrote:

> You need to set suid on the smbmnt and smbumount to do that.
>
> try this
>
> # chown root:root /usr/bin/smbmnt /usr/bin/smbumount
> # chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt /usr/bin/smbumount
>
> that should do it!
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 15:43:28 -0500, Ho-Kuo Chan said:
>
> > Hi,
> >      I am trying to mount a directory on an NT Server on my Linux machine
> >  (Debian potato Linux kernel 2.2.17) using Samba. I have tried the
> >  following:
> >  smbmount //theServer/theDirectory /mnt/theDirectory -o
> >  username=myUsername workgroup=theWorkgroup.
> >  This works when I am logged in as root, but I can't mount as a user. I
> >  have also tried adding the follwing to fstab:
> >  //theServer/theDirectory /mnt/theDirectory
> >  defaults,ro,user,username=myUsername,workgroup=theWorkgroup,gid=100 0 0
> >  with no success. Is it possible to use smbmount as non-root? I have read
> >  the FAQ's and checked some of the archives with no success. Thanks for
> >  you help.
> >
> >
>
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