Problems with smbmount

[Kumar, Swaroop]

Hi:

Brief overview of my situation
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I work on a PC running Windows NT 4.0. I run a telnet session to a LINUX
machine running RedHat 5.1. I would like to access my PC's local CDROM
drive from the LINUX box. For this, I run smbmount from my telnet
session to mount the CDROM drive using a command like:

    smbmount //linuxbox/cdrom /mnt/samba -C -U mylinuxid -c
linuxhostname -D domainname -d 555 -f 555

The problem
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The mount works fine. But, all the files and directories under
/mnt/samba have no permissions whatsoever. 

d---------   1 root     root          512 Dec 31  1969 /mnt/samba

And, this is how a listing of /mnt/samba looks:

total 17
----------   1 root     root          698 Sep 11  1998 00_TRANS.TBL
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 BIN
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 DBS
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 LIB
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 NETWORK
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 NLSRTL
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 OCOMMON
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 ORACORE
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 ORAINST
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 OTRACE
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 PLSQL
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 PRECOMP
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 RDBMS
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 SLAX
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 SQLPLUS
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 SVRMGR
d---------   1 root     root          512 Sep 11  1998 UNIXDOC


On the NT4.0 side, I have"shared" my CDROM drive with "Full Control"
permissions to "Everyone". I
cannot do a 'chmod 555 /mnt/samba'. I am logged on to LINUX as 'root'.
Does that matter?

In summary, can any of you Samba gurus out there help me access my PC's
CDROM drive from a LINUX box?

It would help a lot if you would please cc: your responses to me at
skumar at umi.com. You can also email me at this address if you need more
information about this problem.

Thanx in advance,
Swaroop

Swaroop Kumar
Advanced Information Technology Group
Bell+Howell Information & Learning
734-975-6081