[TriLUG] my SAMBA problem

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Real easy. I do this too.

Create a file in your home directory, I called it "sambacreds". Chmod to 770
and chown laptopUser.laptopUser. In the file put username and password, one
per line.
Example:
Username = laptopUser
Password = laptopPassword

Create the following in your fstab:
//my.ip.address.here/vtcdev /home/me/laptop  smbfs
credentials=/home/me/laptop/sambacreds,gid=laptopUser,fmask=775,dmask=775 0
0

This will tell the mount command to use the sambacreds file for the
credentials, set the gid to the user, while leaving the owner as root, set
the permissions for files and directories to 775 (rwxrwxr-x)

Hope it helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Brown [mailto:gregbrown at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:10 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] my SAMBA problem


This one be a minor problem compred to the other tread (I hope)) He

Here are the basics:

1.  I have a win2k laptop at work with the directory "vtcdev" shared 2.  I
want to mount that directory under /home/me/laptop

I can do this with the following command:

mount -t smb -o username=laptopUser,password=laptopPassword 
//my.ip.address.here/vtcdev /home/me/laptop

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.


Greg

Any ideas?
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