Mounting samba shares

[Arne Henningsen]

You can allow normal users to mount SMB shares by setting the SUID bit of 
smbmnt and smbumount (NOT smbmount), e.g.:
   chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt
   chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbumount

HTH,
Arne

On Thursday 14 April 2005 09:26, Radamanthus Batnag wrote:
> My setup:
>
>
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> DC1
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> Fedora Core 1
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> Samba file server
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> version samba-3.0.2-7.FC1 (what comes with Fedora 1)
>
>
>
> DC2
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> RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
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> Samba client
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> samba-client-3.0.6-2.3E.i386.rpm from CentOS 3.3
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>
>
> I want non-root user juan on DC2 to have read/write access to a specific
> samba share on DC1.
>
>
>
> On DC2, if I execute (as juan):
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> mount -t smbfs //dc/tmp /tmp/test
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>
>
> I get the error message:
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> mount: only root can do that
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>
>
> If I execute (as root):
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> mount -t smbfs //dc/tmp /tmp/test
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>
>
> The samba share is successfully mounted, but user juan has no write access
> to it.
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>
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> What do I do to make //dc/tmp writable by juan?
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>
>
> Thanks!
>
> rad