samba - Sep 2002 - Mounting a ntfs on a w2k server onto a SuSE linux 8 setup at boot time.

Hi,
	I am a new Linux user and I need help.
I have a W2K server with a couple of shared folders formated in the NTFS File
format. Can I edit the FSTAB file so they can be mounted automatically. I have
tried the SMBFS way but it keeps sayoing that i need to be SUID????
Can I use the VFAT  command instead as that thw way my WinMe patitions on the
same harddisk as Linux is done???

Thanks for any help

John

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, John Herdman wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am a new Linux user and I need help.
> I have a W2K server with a couple of shared folders formated in the NTFS
> File format. Can I edit the FSTAB file so they can be mounted
> automatically. I have tried the SMBFS way but it keeps sayoing that i
> need to be SUID????
smbfs needs smbmnt to be setuid root to allow it to mount, if smbmount 
isn't run by root. (man chmod, for example 'chmod u+s smbmnt' as
root)
If you mount as root you don't need this.

This is described in the smbmnt manpage (try: man smbmnt and man smbmount)

> Can I use the VFAT command instead as that thw way my WinMe patitions on
> the same harddisk as Linux is done???
No, the vfat filesystem driver only accesses a local disk. smbfs is a
network filesystem that accesses other machines.

Note that in most cases the filesystem used by the server does not matter
at all.

/Urban