smbmount a SMB share on Linux.
Trevor Fraser
trevor at redlinx.co.za
Tue Aug 5 12:36:16 GMT 2003
Hello All.
I've managed to get it right, but if I stick everything into /etc/fstab,
when the machine boots, it can't find the credentials file which is in
/root. Where should I put this file to get the SMB shares to load on
boot up?
Ciao,
Trevor.
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:37, Trevor Fraser wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> I've been having problems mounting the SMB share on a Linux box with
> read/write permissions.
>
> The senario is I've set up a Samba share called "Agencies" on
> /proj/Agencies to force group to "agencies". I've set all the masks and
> modes (except force unknown acl user) to 0770. The user I want to
> connect as is in the agencies group. The guest is set to no and the
> read only is set to no. When I mount the drive, I can't write to that
> directory. The command I've tried amoung others that I think should
> definately work is(one line):
>
> # smbmount //merlin/Agencies /mnt/Agencies/ -o
> username=zuko/agencies,password=secret,uid=root,guid=agencies,fmask=770,
> dmask=770,rw,
>
> The directory on the file server belong to root:agencies with a 770 mask
> recursively. The user "zuko" is part of the group agencies on both the
> file server and the local machine.
>
> Is there something I should know about to be able to do this? Any help
> will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Trevor.
>
>
>
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