smbmount from fstab

[Steve Litt]

I have a new problem. I made this share:

//wincli/menudata    /mnt/menu    smbfs     password=whatever,user,auto 0 0

mount /mnt/menu works on root, not on a different user. Empty directory is
chmod 777, and as per my understanding of user smbmount, I chmod 4775
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbmnt. Didn't work. Just for fun I chmod 4775
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbmount. Didn't work. Here's the symptom:

$ mount /mnt/menu
$ cannot mount on /mnt/menu: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
Could not umount /mnt/menu: Invalid argument

$

Note that if I comment out the fstab entry and try to do it manually, that
doesn't work either:

$ smbmount //wincli/menudata /mnt/menu -opassword=whatever
cannot mount on /mnt/menu: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
Could not umount /mnt/menu: Invalid argument
$

The preceding command worked perfectly when executed as user root. What
haven't I done?

Thanks

Steve Litt


                                                


At 08:55 AM 11/25/1999 +1100, you wrote:
>Thanks Urban,
>
>I confirm that
>
>>//server/share    /mnt/tmp   smbfs   username=urban,password=xxx  0 0
>
>works, although in my case since I was mounting a share mode share from a
>w98 box I needed to eliminate the username=whatever. Once again, I'm using
>Samba 2.0.6 on almost stock Red Hat 6.0. I also confirm your 
>
>>cola:~#mount error: Device or resource busy
>
>I got the following in my boot.log:
>
>Nov 24 11:38:27 mainserv netfs: Mounting SMB filesystems succeeded
>Nov 24 11:38:27 mainserv mount: mount error: Device or resource busy
>Nov 24 11:38:26 mainserv portmap: portmap startup succeeded
>Nov 24 11:38:27 mainserv netfs: Mounting SMB filesystems succeeded
>Nov 24 11:38:27 mainserv mount: mount error: Device or resource busy
>Nov 24 11:38:27 mainserv netfs: Mounting other filesystems succeeded
>
>As did you, I found the mount succeeded in spite of the error messages.
>Thanks Buddy! Thanks also to Gerry Creager. Gerry, I'll be trying your
>method with pid and gid later. 
>
>Thanks everyone
>
>Steve Litt
>
>
>At 02:34 AM 11/25/1999 +1100, you wrote:
>>On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen several references to running smbmount from /etc/fstab, but I've
>>> never seen an example. Does anyone have an example fstab entry that does
>this?
>>
>>I just tested it with:
>>
>>//server/share    /mnt/tmp   smb   username=urban,password=xxx  0 0
>>
>>I have an old version of mount so I get an error like this:
>>
>>cola:~#mount error: Device or resource busy
>>Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
>>smbmnt failed: 255
>>mount.smb: ioctl failed, res=-1
>>Could not umount /mnt/tmp: Device or resource busy
>>
>>
>>But the mount works. The latest util-linux is supposed to fix this I
>>believe.
>>
>>/Urban
>>
>>
>
>