similar to: samba mounting files

I am having a problem letting users mount there samba shares. The root user has no problem mounting . But regular users get the error "mount: only root can do that " when trying to execute the following. mount -rw -t smbfs //jelly-bean-iii/E /home/ca43887/E Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Charles

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Samba] samba mounting files Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:07:14 +0100 From: David Morel <david.morel@amakuru.net> To: assistance@ids-ug.com Cc: Samba Mailing List <samba@lists.samba.org> Le ven 19/03/2004 ? 09:21, geralds a ?crit : > Hi > whenever i try to mount a samba share which is a samba server i get an > error message

Can't mount share on my linux boxes as a regular user. I have no trouble mounting shares as root. This problem occurs on both my linux boxes. All the commands I show I have run as a regular user. Here is all the data I have: smbmount \\\\JHAMMER6\\public /mnt/NetWork/JHAMMER6/public/ -o debug=6 mount.smbfs started (version 2.0.7) Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() -

When i go to Yast Control center i can see that the user log in is set to /bin/bash and this is the default. Is this what you meant? Where else to find smbmnt? 'coz when i try to open up /usr/bin/smbmnt it tells me that "COULD NOT FIND THE PROGRAM smbmnt. rgds, Segie On Tuesday 23 March 2004 14:22, you wrote: > Are you sure that smbmnt is /usr/bin ? > > >

Hi, i'm trying to get samba read write to work on my computer. I can write as root, but when i added this to my fsab //PLAYER/UPLOAD /home/ftpa/upload2 smbfs user,rw,username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0 and try to do a mount //PLAYER/UPLOAD i get. smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (1011,1011) smbmnt failed: 1 What should i do? Any help would be appreciated

I'm trying to set up a Samba mount point to a WinME computer so that a user can mount the file system. I'm getting the following error when I attempt the mount: $ mount /jan.fcwm.org/ smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) smbmnt failed: 1 How do I install smbmnt suid root? Running Red Hat 7.2, and have the following rpms installed: $ rpm -qa | grep samba

Hi. I'm receiving this message if I try mount a drive: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) How can tackle that ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards - vy73 de OZ4KK. Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org

I have been pulling my hairs out about this for a while now. Running the latest version of SuSE with all patches applied, I have my machine joined to the domain no problem. But when I go to use mount -t smbfs I get this error. Mounting share failed, smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (1000,1000) smbmnt failed:1 Of course I hit Google and the list archives first before

Hi whenever i try to mount a samba share which is a samba server i get an error message that says "smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct mounts(500, 500) smbmnt failed1" Anybody there who can help please? i've consulted sambalist and adviced to visit the foolowing site below http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/faq/index.html#faq9 and it says; login as root and change to

I have Fedora Core 1 workstations configured with winbind logging onto our NT domain. Everything is going well except that I cannot seem to figure out how to connect to a windows home directory on a Win2000 server. Here is the scenario: W2K server with home directories for each user: Each user has modify permissions to their share Administrator has full control First off, I need to somehow

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

I have a problem mounting Samba shares with recent mount packages from RedHat and Samba packages from samba site. I have tried samba-2.2.4 RPM and samba-2.2.5 (built for RH7.2). In all cases mount fails if I use RH mount package version > 2.11b (current is 2.11n). If I also use Samba packages (2.2.4) from RedHat Rawhide - everyhting works Here is detailed description I have submitted to RH

Hi, I am deploying samba for an embedded system. The requirement is that the system should be able to mount windows share points. I believe "smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt" components are needed to do the same. I am not very clear about smbmnt though! I find that smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt are all quite huge. Around 300 to 400Kb each. I understand that Samba is capable of doing

I recently got to set up a Linux workstation in a mostly-Windows environment. I'm trying to use pam_mount from: http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~epx/pam_mount/ to automatically mount smb shares from a Windows 2000 server at login. (pam_mount is a pam module that grabs the passwd you use for login, xdm, ssh, or any other pam module and uses it with smbmount to automatically mount shares when

Hello, I have found a solution on an other news group : uk.comp.os.linux There is a set of messages with the subject "Ordinary user to mount SAMBA share" You can read the content of that uk.comp.os.linux group through the web, the URL is http://x35.deja.com In one of the message the author wrote "After, further test. I find smbmount, unlike mount, requires the user owns the

I've seen several references to running smbmount from /etc/fstab, but I've never seen an example. Does anyone have an example fstab entry that does this? Thanks Steve Litt

Hi I tried to log in on the Samba server as a normal user but failed . The followingKDE error message displayed out; "could not read network connection list /home/<user>/.DCOPserver_linux-server_0 Check to see if DCOPserver program is running" ANYbody to help me out of this problem? Thanks. RGDS, SEGIE.

Hello >Hello, >I am trying to give some users on a Linux machine the ability to mount >shares from an NT server. Eventually I would like them to be able to do >this with a gui tool like LinNeighborhood, but for now I am trying to >get the smbmount command working. > >I can mount the shares while logged in as root, but when I try logged in >as the user, I get an

Hi all i have downloaded samba 3.0.21c.tar.gz and trying to install on Redhat enterprise Linux 4 with kernel version 2.6.9-5 smp , i tried samba with following options. and while doing make it's giving error. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba-3c --bindir=/usr/local/samba-3c/bin --sbindir=/usr/local/samba-3c/sbin --libexec=/usr/local/samba-3c/libexec --datadir=/usr/local/samba-3c/share

Hi all, I am trying to cross compile samba version 2.2.12 to an ARM platform (kernel 2.4.20) using arm-tools chain 3.4.2. I get the smbmount compiled, however, when I want to mount a directory that is located in a Windows XP PC, I get the following message: WARNING: The "strip dot"option is deprecated unrecognized character set handle_source_env: Failed to open file , Error was