fstab question

Lleb_KCir · 04-11-2005, 09:58 PM

i have my fstab setup to mount several win2k shares for my user to have access to them. today the windows box crashed, big supprise there (sarcasim), so i lost access to those drives. when i tried to smbmount -o username=username //IP/share /mount/point i got an error telling me i have to use mount, now i know for a fact that mount can only be used by root and i do not want to swap to root to gain access to my shares.

is there a way to reestablish connection between those auto mounted shares without rebooting?

Pcghost · 04-11-2005, 11:37 PM

You don't necessarily have to be root to access your files, just to call mount. If the uid and gid options are set in fstab for the share, you should be able to access the files as the user.

If the line in fstab has something like
//server/share /mnt/wherever smbfs rw,gid=username, gid=users, etc.....

then simply su and type 'mount //server/share'

Lleb_KCir · 04-12-2005, 01:11 AM

kewl thanks.