full access to share for regular users

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On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Hyung Kim wrote:

> I am new to samba and I have two questions.  I have a
> linux box connected to a box running windows 98. 
> Windows is set to share-level access control.  
> 
> 1.  How do I allow nonroot users to "smbmount"?

Not sure. Do you have to?

Using autofs to do the mount automagically when someone accesses a share
allows you to avoid having to make smbmount/smbmnt setuid-root (if that
is necessary or if it helps). autofs runs a daemon as root, that can have
access to root owned 0400 configuration files (maps) and you can put the
plaintext passwords in those.

There is an automount howto and a lot of manpages on autofs.

The map looks like this
 windoze   -fstype=smbfs,username=x,password=y,uid=1,gid=2  ://windoze/c
(ooh, I forget if it's supposed to be ://machine or machine:/ both is
 supposed to work, but I think only one does)


If you want different users to be able to mount as different users (user A
gets a view where A is owner, user B ...) then you'd have to have multiple
maps and mountpoints with different options for each user. It's not
terribly pretty but it works ok for a single user.


> 2.  When I mount a share as root, root has full access
> to the share, however, a nonroot user has read-only
> access.  How do I allow a regular user to have full
> access to a share?  

The uid= and gid= parameters change the visible ownership of everything
mounted.

% mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass,uid=501,gid=100 //srv/tmp /mnt/x

% ls -l /mnt/x
-rwxr-xr-x   1 urban    users           0 Jun 11 13:56 abc80*


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