[Samba] SuSE9.2 Client to AD 2003

[Nerijus Baliunas]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:45:29 -0500 Elijah Savage <esavage at digitalrage.org> wrote:

> I have been pulling my hairs out about this for a while now. Running the
> latest version of SuSE with all patches applied, I have my machine
> joined to the domain no problem. But when I go to use mount -t smbfs I
> get this error.
> 
> Mounting share failed, smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct
> user mounts (1000,1000) smbmnt failed:1
> 
> Of course I hit Google and the list archives first before asking here

So you should have found that smbfs is not samba, but kernel question.
Wrong list here.

> and tried a few things first like
> 
> Chmod +s smbmnt and also making sure the kernel was compiled to support
> smbfs file system.
> 
> Can anyone in here save me a few hairs and point me to some help or
> offer some guidance before I pull what is left of my hair out :)

I'd suggest trying cifs instead of smbfs.

Regards,
Nerijus