[PLUG] Samba question

Matt Alexander m at netpro.to
Wed Nov 6 03:43:31 UTC 2002


Sounds like you didn't change permissions on the right program.  Change
them to 4755 for smbmnt, not smbmount (it's silly, yes, I know).


On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Scott VanHoosen wrote:

> Matt,
>
> I just tried that, now I get the following error:
>
> smbmount //patsy/web /home/scott/web-patsy -o username=scott%mypassword
>
> libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
> 21189: Connection to patsy failed
> SMB connection failed
>
> If it's talking about this file: /usr/lib/vfs/modules/libsmb.so, the
> rights are already set to 755.
>
> -Scott
>
> --- Matt Alexander <m at netpro.to> wrote:
> > chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt
> > chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbumount
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Scott VanHoosen wrote:
> >
> > > I tried using smbmount, but got the following error message:
> > >
> > > $ smbmount //patsy/web /home/scott/web-patsy -o
> > > username=scott,password=mypassword
> > >
> > > smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
> > > smbmnt failed: 1
>
>
> =====
> -Scott
>
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