Can't mount NT filesystem unless root

[rvargo at vargo.org]

The regular user has to have read/write permissions to the directory you are
trying to mount the share to.  Also make sure that you are using the
smbmount/smbumount commands, using the mount/umount command is still strictly
a superuser command (with exceptions).

Rick


Ho-Kuo Chan <hchan at Matrox.COM> said:

> 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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> > -----
> > Nick Austin              Systems Administrator
> > <nick at digitalpipe.net>  Digital Pipe Communications, Inc.
> > Phone: 650-627-5100x5224
> > Fax: 650-212-2301
> 
> 
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