Hello Everyone,

I am not sure why I am not able to mount a smb share anymore but if anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

I am trying to mount, as a non-root user on my linux machine to another linux box that is running samba with many shares.

Every time I try to mount I get the msg only root can do that. I am running FC1.

When I run smbclient -L hostname I can see all the shares I just can not mount anything and have tried many times now.

If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

The reason why I am trying to do this is because I have created some dir's on my linux box that I want mounted all the time to the samba server. For the reason being I will be able to sftp over some files directly through the share instead of sftping everything to my box and then sftping everything from my box to the samba server. For example, right now it goes something like this if I want to sftp something over.

sftp to my linux box --> login to my linux box and sftp to samba share

I want to be able to
sftp to my linux box to mounted smb share.

If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Take care,

Chris.

Make sure your user is the owner of the mount point, and make sure smbmnt is suid root.

Thanks for your reply as I really do appreciate it.

Yes I am the owner and smbmnt is now fixed.

However, I am unfamiliar with the syntax of smbmnt or smbmount and I have looked at the man pages and have not been able to successfully mount a remote share.

If someone could please provide me with an example I would really appreciate it.

Here is an example of what I am trying to do:

local dir = /home/user/data

Samba server hostname = filsrv01

Samba share = data

If anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Chris.

It's easier to put the appropriate line in your fstab, so you can use 'mount directory' instead. Make sure to add the options "user" and "noauto" (noauto, because otherwise it will prompt you for a password every time you boot, holding up the boot sequence). My smb line in fstab looks like this:

Hrm, but to actually answer your question, you should be able to use

smbmount //filsrv01/data /home/user/data

if your current username is valid on filsrv01. Otherwise, add
-o username=validuser
to the end. Try replacing "filsrv01" with it's IP address if that doesn't work.
(Also, it would appear you could add "password=bla" to your fstab to avoid the prompting, but that file is usually world-readable)

Thanks that worked.

I appreciate all your help.

Take care,

Chris.