[Samba] Using smbmount as a user

[Alex]

Pleass excuse the rhetorical questions.

Ok So I did a chmod -s and got them back asI was in a vicious circle.

The impression I am getting is that smbmount can only run this command 
as a user if I got the folder setup in smb.conf to run as a user????

> oops!
> I found this on another list when I did a google search for the error 
> which I was getting.
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> "The key here is that the command works when you are root.
> What I have done is this:
> in the /usr/bin directory are all the smb* programs
> if you login as root and do this in the /usr/bin directory:
> chmod +s smb*
> All the smb programs will be set to suid root (the +s does this)
> then login as yourself and all should be happy. "
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> I tried the command and I am now getting this error when I try to smbmount:
> 
> libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
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> How could I unset the chmod +s smb* root?
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> Alex wrote:
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>> But I only have one instance of smbd and nmbd and they are installed 
>> root?
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>> $ ls -l /usr/sbin/smbd
>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2447222 Jan 28 11:33 /usr/sbin/smbd
>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       858944 Jan 28 11:33 /usr/sbin/nmbd
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>> I'm gonna take a guess and say thay perhaps you didn't install that
>> Samba package as the root user.
>> As a result, "direct user mounts" are not allowed.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
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