Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

[Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net>]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 00:20, 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
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> mount -t smbfs -o owner=backup -o lfs -o
> username=administrator,password=XXXXXX //192.168.2.200/drobo /media/drobo/
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> 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.
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> mount: only root can do that
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> Anyone know how I can mount this so that the backup user can write to it

  I use smbmount for that.  It's apt-gettable, and has a config file
where you can configure defaults so that the actual command you have
to issue is shorter.

				-- A.

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