smbmount - what permissions? (again)... one solution

[Jacques Landru]

Hello,

I have found a solution on an other news group : uk.comp.os.linux
There is a set of messages with the
subject "Ordinary user to mount SAMBA share"
You can read the content of that uk.comp.os.linux group
through the web, the URL is http://x35.deja.com

In one of the message the author wrote
"After, further test. I find smbmount, unlike mount,
requires the user owns the mount_point..."

In another message I found
"... Samba assume you have identical username on both local and remote
machines. If this note the case you need to specify
a option to tell remote username. However, none other
than root is allowed to mount (same as smbmount) with option.
So you either (1)  synchronyze username on linux and nt boxes;
or (2) have a fstab entry for the nt share and use mount
instead of smbmount"...

So I have sastified three conditions for my users can
(smb)mount their personnal  disk space from  a NT server

    1) smbmount and smbmnt files have 's' bit,
    2) user owns the mount point,
    3) linux account and nt account have their username synchronyzed


I hope, this will help other people...

Jacques Landru

P.S. Suggestion : May be these three conditions can be included
in a future version of the smbmount man pages
or in a smbmount FAQ.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacques Landru" <landru at enic.fr>
To: <samba at samba.org>
Cc: <tridge at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 6:17 PM
Subject: smbmount - what permissions? (again)


> Hello
>
> >Hello,
> >I am trying to give some users on a Linux machine the ability to mount
> >shares from an NT server. Eventually I would like them to be able to do
> >this with a gui tool like LinNeighborhood, but for now I am trying to
> >get the smbmount command working.
> >
> >I can mount the shares while logged in as root, but when I try logged in
> >as the user, I get an cannot mount on /mnt/userdir: Operation Not
> >Permitted error. The user has RWX permission to the /mnt/userdir
> >directory and can otherwise manipulate files there. I am using:
> >
> >smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/userdir -U username
> >
> >As I said, this works if I log in as root and use any of the usernames
> >I've set up. This is smbmount 2.05a. What permissions do these users
> >need to mount the network share?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Parker Dubberke
> >Network Administrator
> >501 Studios
> >Austin, Texas
>
> Same for me.
> My linux kernel is 2.2.14 (Mandrake V 7.0)
> Personal user disk space (for NT or LINUX) is on  a SAN
> (Storage Area Network),  the front end server of this SAN is
> an NT server. What I plan to do is to "smbmount" the home
> dir of  the linux accounts from a SMB share on the SAN.
> Untill now smbmount doesn't work for non root user.
>
> Error message is :
>       cannot mount on /mnt/smb_share: Operation not permitted
>       smbmnt failed: 1
>       mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
>       Could not umount /mnt/smb_share: Invalid argument
>
> smbmount, smbmnt have SUID bit
> What permission is missing ?
>
> Any help
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques Landru
>
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