samba mount when not owner of mount point
 

Is there any way to allow users to mount a samba share to a mount point that he doesn't own? I have this mount point:

drwxrwxrwx 2 root users 4096 Aug 3 10:42 /views/master/viewmnt/

I have this /etc/fstab entry:

//vader/eagts_build /views/master/viewmnt smbfs ro,noauto,users,guest 0 0

I'd like to allow any user to execute this command (successfully):

mount /views/master/viewmnt
or
smbmount //vader/eagts_build /views/master/viewmnt

I always get the following error:

[barb@stimpy /views]$ mount /views/master/viewmnt/
Anonymous login successful
cannot mount on /views/master/viewmnt: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1

I've tried this with and without the "guest" option.

I don't want anyone in particular to have to own this mount point. Is that possible?

Thanks,
Barb

i think do not use 0 0 at the end in fstab use 1 2 because 0 0 is unreadable but i suggest not to use fstab to remote mount if u lost connection to the server then ur workstation cannot start so better use manual mount smbfs or make some simple script run on startup after all system start

i prefer use credentials=