Mounting SMB shares without root

Jelmer Vernooij
2002-01-14T07:32:05Z

> I tried this as well but I didn't have the same success.  I'm
running SUSE
> 7.3 w/ Samba 2.2.2 that I cofigured with the smbmount option.

> Here is my command and my results:

> jkonkol@suse:~> mount -t smbfs -o username=$ejwk //is1117/public
> /home/jkonkol/mnt/test
> mount: only root can do that

> I have chmod a+s both the /home/jkonkol/mnt and /home/jkonkol/mnt/test
> directories.

> Anyone have any ideas ??
Yes, put the option 'user' in the appropriate line (about the share
share you want to give the user access to mount) in /etc/fstab.


> On Sunday 13 January 2002 15:34, Marc R. Hoffman wrote:
> > Cool...this did it! Thanks!!

> > On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 03:14  PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > >> Mandrake Linux lets me do this with no problems. How do I set
the smbmnt
> > >> attributes for non-root usage?

> > > chmod a+s /location/to/smbmnt

> > > (Security issues with installing SUID binaries, blah blah)

> > > Jelmer

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