smbmount won't set group ownership

jeff covey jeff.covey at pobox.com
Sat Jun 6 03:02:50 GMT 1998


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hello, all!

[metainfo:  i'm using redhat linux 5.0, and have tried both the rpm
            that came with redhat and 1.9.18p7-50.1 from the samba
            website.]

i can't seem to get smbmount to mount a share and give the files in
the mountpoint group ownership of anything but root.

the version of the man page on the samba website says you can do this:

smbmount "\\server\tmp" -c 'mount /mnt -u 123 -g 456'

but smbmount won't accept this; the man page in the distribution says
the -c option is for specifying the client name.  my reading of the
manpage installed by the rpm makes me think this should work:

/usr/sbin/smbmount "//judy/judy-hd/" /home/judy/judy-hard-drive \
        -n -c diligent -u judy -g users

but it makes all of the files user judy but group root.  what do i
have to do to fix this?  answers that don't involve setuid root
appreciated.  :)

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