[TriLUG] smbmount error

[Roy Vestal]

/etc/fstab is your filesystem mount table. Here's my listing for my 4 samba
loads:

//server/share      /path/to/mount/point  smbfs
credentials=/home/username/sambacreds,uid=username,gid=username,fmask=775,dm
ask=775 0 0

the key is the credentials line. Instead of having to put -o username= and
password= in your /etc/fstab (which EVERYONE can see) you can assign it to a
file that you can lock down. I have the file chmod 611 on my home share with
myself as uid and gid. The uid and gid are entirely up to you. You can do
user instead to allow the creds to pass as the user, but since i'm the only
one on this box, I force my uid and gid. fmask is the file mask and the
dmask is the directory mask.

HTH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] smbmount error


> It'll work fine as Jason suggests.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Tower" <jason at cerient.net>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] smbmount error
>
>
> not sure if this will work, but you might try putting the smb entry in
> /etc/fstab with the user and noauto options, that may allow ordinary users
> to
> mount it.
>
> jason
>
> On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:48, Turnpike Man wrote:
> > --- Justin Johnson <justin at deepbluesoftware.com> wrote:
> > > Hey ya'll,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to connect to a share on my Windows box using smbmount, and
I
> > > am getting the following error:
> > > "smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)"
> >
> > If I recall (somebody back me up here) you have to have the smbclient
> > installed, AND you have to make your mount as root.
> >
> > > I assume this means there is some sort of permissions problem, but I'm
> > > not sure how [best way] to fix it. Any insight would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > the command I executed was:
> > >   $ smbmount //swordfish/dataraid /home/justin/work -o
> > > ip=[the_ip_address]
> > >
> > > Running RHL8.0 kernel 2.4.28.24-8
> > > --
> >
> > I've done it with this command as root and /data/test must be available
to
> > mount to:
> >
> > mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=foo //odin/documents /data/test
> >
> > What I haven't figured out is why does it have to be done as root and
why
> > can't I get my regular users access to it!
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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