[TriLUG] my SAMBA problem

[Greg Brown]

DOH!!  How'd I miss that?  It worked great.  Thanks!

Greg

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 02:33 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:10, Greg Brown wrote:
> > Since this runs from the mount command I have to do this as root.  This
> > means that all the contents of /home/me/laptop are owned by root and I
> > need to read and write to this directory with my "me" user.  Changing
> > ownership of the directory to user 'me' doesn't work once the drive is
> > mounted.
> >
> > Any thoughts?  I checked the man page for mount and there is a "user"
> > option that allows users other than root to mount filesystems, but this
> > only seems to apply to filesystems defined in fstab.  I also tried
> > linuxconf to see if I could set the permissions on mount to allow my 'me'
> > user.  No dice.
>
> Check the man page for mount for the "uid" and "gid" options.  Those
> will do what you want.
>
> mount -t smb -o \
> username=laptopUser,password=laptopPassword,uid=500,gid=500 \
> //my.ip.address.here/vtcdev /home/me/laptop
>
> (Assuming 500 are the uid and gid you want to use.)
>
> Also, remember that you can put most of these options in your /etc/fstab
> (everything but the password) so it's easier to mount things next time.
> Use the "noauto" option to prevent it from trying to mount at boot-time.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jeremy
>
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