smbmount like a normal user

Pablo Caraballo pcara at sucre.udo.edu.ve
Mon Nov 22 19:51:55 GMT 1999


HI!

    I am using RH 6.0 and samba 2.0.3 and I have two questions: first I
want to mount my smbfs as a normal user and second, I would like to pass

parameters with "-c" but without having to show my password.
    To mount as an user I included a line in /etc/fstab like:

    //XXXXXX/PABLO          /mnt/xxxxxx             smbfs
rw,nosuid,noexec,dev,noauto,async,user     0 0

    But when a user write: mount /mnt/xxxxxx
    samba does not ask for a password but said that it is required:
    .....
    security=share
    SMBtconX failed. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
pair in a Tree Connect or  Session Setup are invalid.)
    Perhaps you are using the wrong sharename, username or password?
    Some servers insist that these be in uppercase

    When a user write: smbmount //xxxxxx/pablo, the client ask for the
password and the mount point and then answer:

    smbmnt must be installed suid root
    mount failed

    After that I changed the mode of /usr/bin/smbmnt to -rwsr-xr-x, but
when a user write: smbmount //xxxxxx/pablo, again  the client ask for
the password and the mount point and answer:

    cannot mount on /mnt/xxxxxx: Operation not permitted
    mount failed

    I even changed the mode of /mnt/xxxxxx to rwxrwxrwx and the same
answer.

    For the second question I would like to have an script like this:

     /usr/bin/smbmount //$1/$2 -c "mount /mnt/$1 -u 1000 -g 1000"

    But it does not ask for the password and I do not want to give it in

the command line for security, I know in the smbclient man pages said
that "-c" suppresses the normal  password prompt  from  the  client  to
the user. But I still would like to write everything on one line but
need to be asked for the password.

    I appreciate any help.



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