[PLUG] smbmount problems under Redhat 7.3 and newer...

Michael C. Robinson michael at robinson-west.com
Wed May 28 10:22:01 UTC 2003


It used to be that you added the suid bit to smbmount so that ordinary
users could mount their smb shares.  If you try that now the prorgam
spits out an error that it is not allowed.  Logging in as root to mount
the desired share doesn't work as the files end up being owned by root,
which is wrong.  The smbclient approach is annoying.  I've looked in
info under fstab and su but I haven't found anything helpful that would
either mount a user's network shares to his/her home directory at boot
or otherwise allow users to mount their smb shares without root
priviledge the way adding the suid bit used to.

     --  Michael







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