Hi all,

Firstly, if you know a good site that covers "mounting windows drives via /etc/fstab" and don't want to read this long post, please post the link ....

My distro is a fully updated redhat 8.0 installation. I want to mount windows shares using /etc/fstab

I have set up icons on the desktop to each drive, but they won't allow me to mount as a user. here is the relevant section of the /etc/fstab file. All the mentioned drives mount and are readable as root using mount -a from console.

//server/dropbox1 /mnt/dropbox1 smbfs uid=root,password=,rw,dmask=0000,fmask=0000,umask=0000
//server/dropbox2 /mnt/dropbox2 smbfs uid=root,password=,rw,dmask=0000,fma
sk=0000,umask=0000
//server/dropbox3 /mnt/dropbox3 smbfs uid=root,password=,rw,dmask=0000,fma
sk=0000,umask=0000

I would like users to be able to mount the drives and have read, write and execute permissions.

I have run chmod a+s smbmnt. I did the same to smbmount, but apparently this is a really bad idea, so I THINK I have fixed that.

Here the Permissions for smbmnt and smbmount incase the problem lay here.

-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 560774 Apr 6 2003 smbmnt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 571222 Apr 6 2003 smbmount

Because I can log in and access the drives as root, I don't think the following is where the problem is, but a full picture.....

I have an e-smith server which acts as the internet/DHCP server. The windows box 'server' is another machine on the network. it has three drives shared as dropbox1, 2 & 3 respectively. There is no login required on the box and it runs Win98 SE. The drives are shared with user access. the network logon is set to Windows Logon for the win98 box.

I used to be able to mount samba shares from the e-smith server using

//esmith/esmithr_bay /mnt/esmith smbfs username=nobody,password=,dmask=0777,fmask=0777,user,auto,user,rw 0 0

This string does not appear to work when editted to accomodate the win98 'server' settings.

Any help appreciated.

Mick

Ain't it just to add
"user" in the fstab options?

have you had a good read of the mount man page?


billy

The fact that it's been 20+ years and nobody has thought to reduce the opacity and complexity of the userland tools in GNU says alot about how bad the designs of C-language and file systems are.

The retards that have allowed this convoluted and incompetently-designed system to become the de-facto norm need to be burned at the stake.

This necro thread is over 15 years old and you posted nothing in regards to being constructive thus violating the LQ RulesYou have been a LQ member long enough therefore understanding LQ Rules should be a given. If not then reread the rules.