Re: allowing users to mount smbfs
Thus spake MRZ:
> Hello again everyone.
>
> I'm trying to configure my potato box such that any user can mount/unmount the share(s) on an NT box I have. Naturally when I say any, I
> mean any user who also exists on that NT box. Keep in mind that I'm not trying to make shares available to others from my
> potato box; for that I have samba installed.
> It's been explained to me that to do this I need simply go root, and add a reference for this share to fstab.
> Once this is done then any user can "mount /<mountpoint>", enter their p/w and it will be mounted for that user session.
>
> Well I've made the entry as best as I understand, but am having a peculiar problem for which I ask everyone's help to solve.
>
> I would like to have this behave the same way for all users so I've chosen to make the mount point "/mnt/ntbox".
> Here is what I tried adding to fstab:
> "//ntbox/share /mnt/ntbox smbfs defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0" (without the quotes, natch!)
>
> So I then open a terminal and try "mount /mnt/ntbox"; I'm prompted for my password which I enter.
> But the process fails with:
> "cannot mount /mnt/ntbox: Operation not permitted
> smbmnt failed: 1"
>
> But: If I change the reference <mountpoint> to "/home/user/somedir" and repeat the attempt
> at a terminal, "mount /home/user/somedir" it works fine.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Sounds like it might be a permissions issue - how are the permissions for /mnt/ and
/mnt/ntbox set? Just a guess from what you've said so far.
Good luck,
Steve
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