>>> How can I mount a windows share as a specific user. Works great as
>>> root, but I don't want to have to su to root everytime I want to mount
>>> a share. I want user X to be able to do it.
>>>
>>> Also. I get this error when I mount a Windows share. It still works,
>>> but the message is just annoying.

>>Search mount man page for user, uid, gid, umask options.
>
> Here is the line I use:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass,uid=1000,gid=100
> //winshare /home/user/mountpoint
>
> Works fine as root, but if I try to run this as a user. It says I have
> to be root.

Yes, normal users can't mount anything unless the superuser allows them.

One way to allow them is to add the mountpoint in /etc/fstab

//winshare /home/user/mountpoint smbfs \
user,noauto,username=user,password=pass 0 0

Other way is to setuid root the /usr/bin/smbmnt program... well read the man
page


* setuid root means:
chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt
chown root /usr/bin/smbmnt

--
damjan

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:05:23 -0800, Jeffrey Froman wrote:

> quip wrote:
>
>> Then you need samba
>
> I think what the OP is saying is that a remote share from a Windows machine
> is being mounted onto a Linux filesystem, not the other way around. For
> such a task, there is no need to run Samba at all, just the mount the share
> as an smbfs filesystem.

Absolutley correct; my bad. I guess the caffeine hadn't made its way to
my brain when I posted...yeah, that's the ticket...;P

Beauford wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:54:48 -0600, quip <wnjjunk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:14:07 -0500, Beauford wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>How can I mount a windows share as a specific user. Works great as
>>>root, but I don't want to have to su to root everytime I want to mount
>>>a share. I want user X to be able to do it.
>>>
>>>Also. I get this error when I mount a Windows share. It still works,
>>>but the message is just annoying.
>>>
>>>"Ignoring badly formed line in configuration file: gopher"
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>I don't know why you are getting the specific error; are you trying to
>>mount to a directory named gopher?
>>
>>Anyway, you should be able to add the option "users" to allow anyone to
>>mount the share. You could then add the option "umask=# # #" to restrict
>>privelages as desired. Both of these options go in the last column of you
>>/etc/fstab file.
>>
>>This all assumes you are referencing a partition on your hd.
>>
>>--quip
>
>
> I have no idea what gopher is, certainly not a mount point. To clear
> things up though, I'm not mounting a partition on this machine. It is
> on another Window 2000 machine I have.
>
>

Ahhh grife......all you youngins. Don't know what gopher is?

That statement makes me want to sob uncontrollably. Next thing you
know, someone is going to say, what's a punch card? what's a terminal
printer? what's archie? veronica? jughead?

Tsk.

On 2004-11-19, GLK9MM <spam-fodder02@cox.REMOVE.net> wrote:

>
> Ahhh grife......all you youngins. Don't know what gopher is?
>
> That statement makes me want to sob uncontrollably. Next thing you
> know, someone is going to say, what's a punch card? what's a terminal
> printer? what's archie? veronica? jughead?

Now, now.... Don't cry. Educate.

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GLK9MM wrote:
>
> Beauford wrote:
> > I have no idea what gopher is, certainly not a mount point. To clear
> > things up though, I'm not mounting a partition on this machine. It is
> > on another Window 2000 machine I have.
>
> Ahhh grife......all you youngins. Don't know what gopher is?
>
> That statement makes me want to sob uncontrollably. Next thing you
> know, someone is going to say, what's a punch card? what's a terminal
> printer? what's archie? veronica? jughead?

Dry your tears, some of us remember drum cards and those finger-thingies
that transformed a Selectric into a printer. 40-column 9" b+w
monitors. 8" floppies. 5-meg hard drives. Wordstar. Supercalc.

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE! (Not me, but I know those who do.)

--
Cheers,
Bev
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