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Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!



On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:04:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote:


[a bunch of resolved cifs/smbfs stuff... ]

>
> And finally, the last issue remains: if mount normally must be run by root, 
> how can I give non-root users access to mount shares without knowing 
> before-hand what shares to pre-populate /etc/fstab with?
>
> It would be much easier just to continue using smbmount, but like I say, 
> I'm trying to be a good, forward-going sort of guy rather than living in 
> the fading past....
>

I;m jumping in here. What makes you think smbmount is going away? its
still listed as a file in the sid versions of samba stuff. 

maybe the solution to your problem is to go right around it and use
automount (can you use that with samba? I think so) and just set up
automounts for everything that could be mounted.

just a thought.

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