samba - Apr 2001 - mounting share on NT server

yes another Linix newbie.. :)  I'm wanting to mount a shared
folder on an NT file server. The network includes a NT PDC,
NT file server, 98 machines and the one Linux box. I've
found a lot of HOWTO's on Samba but most are in the
direction of Samba being the server not the client. I can
mount the share with smbmount //server/share /mnt/mountpoint
and then supplying the password, but only as root. After
this everything works great, but after a period of
inactivity the mount points become locked and all access is
denied, even as root. Encrypted passwords are enabled on
samba, all accounts are added with "smbadduser" and the
Linux box shows in Network neighborhood. The Windoz machines
can access the Linux box with no problems. I'm sure there is
something very simple I'm missing here..  :)

TIA,
Randall

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, molina wellington-nonpay wrote:
> yes another Linix newbie.. :)  I'm wanting to mount a shared
> folder on an NT file server. The network includes a NT PDC,
> NT file server, 98 machines and the one Linux box. I've
> found a lot of HOWTO's on Samba but most are in the
> direction of Samba being the server not the client. I can
There is a smb howto, section 8 is about linux as a smb client. If someone
feels like expanding (and updating) the parts there about smbfs it would
be welcome.

> mount the share with smbmount //server/share /mnt/mountpoint
> and then supplying the password, but only as root. After
You must make smbmnt setuid root for normal users to be able to mount (see 
the smbmnt manpage for the additional requirements). autofs may be an 
alternative.
> this everything works great, but after a period of
> inactivity the mount points become locked and all access is
> denied, even as root. Encrypted passwords are enabled on
umount, mount again or upgrade to the latest 2.2 kernel (if you are
running 2.2, and possibly also the latest 2.2.0-alpha of samba)

/Urban