path to smbmount, smbmnt, and smbumount

Luiz Alfredo Baggiotto luiz at pucrs.br
Wed Jan 23 12:16:24 GMT 2002


Hello

> The problem I'm having is that smbmount, smbmnt, and smbumount are 
> installed in /usr/sbin. Because of this, I can make whatever 
> connections I need from the Linux boxes if I'm logged under root, but 
> if I am logged in as a normal user, those three executables cannot be 
> found (/usr/sbin not being on my path). If I attempt to invoke smbmount 
> with an explicit path (/usr/sbin/smbmount //server/public ~/public, for 
> example), I am prompted for a password, the I get the message "execvp 
> of smbmnt failed. Error was No such file or directory.smbmnt failed: 1" 
> My hunch is that smbmount is trying to find smbmnt along the path, 
> which (again) does not include /usr/sbin.
> In order for this to work, do I need to alter my path, or there another 
> way of dealing with this?

Well, you can modify the file /etc/profile to include the /usr/sbin for all users or make 
symlinks in /usr/bin (ln -s /usr/sbin/smbmount /usr/bin/smbmount, for example). But the 
error sounds to me that the file ~/public (/home/user/public) aren´t available. This 
directory exists?
Regards

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