samba - Oct 2000 - Mounting by users

Hi,

In my suse 6.4 I'm trying to make users able to mount the HD of a samba
client from a samba server. So I have
added a line to /etc/fstab like this

//blabla/bla	/here    smbfs    noauto,user,pasword=bla  0  0

Root can mount with only 'mount /here' but the first time I tried this
users get a message like this:

smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
smbmnt failed: 1
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1

I have changed smbmnt to suid. But now I get this

smbmnt failed: 1
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1

What can I do?

Thanks

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Eduardo Diaz Uriarte wrote:
> smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
> smbmnt failed: 1
> mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
> 
> I have changed smbmnt to suid. But now I get this
You also need to make smbumount suid so that they can unmount when they
want to.

> smbmnt failed: 1
> mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1
smbmnt only allows a user to mount if he owns the directory he is
mounting, for security reasons. Otherwise someone might replace /usr/bin
with a /usr/bin of their own choosing (or /etc, or ...)

Each user needs his own mountpoint (and their own /etc/fstab entry).
smbmnt should probably be changed to accept /etc/fstab entries marked with
user as valid authorization.

/Urban