Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Tony Heal wrote:
> I am trying to mount an smbfs as the backup user and something is not 
> right. I can run this as root and it works fine
>
> mount -t smbfs –o owner=backup -o lfs -o 
> username=administrator,password=XXXXXX //192.168.2.200/drobo /media/drobo/
>
> yet when I mount it that way the backup user has no permissions. If I 
> try and mount it as the backup user I get a message stating only root 
> can do that.
>
> mount: only root can do that
>
> Anyone know how I can mount this so that the backup user can write to it
I don't know if there is anything different about smbfs, but when I get 
that message from mount it means either:

There is no entry in /etc/fstab for that filesystem/mountpoint combo
or
There is an fstab entry, but it does not have the user option

HTH

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Marc Shapiro
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