Hi all,

Having a problem that I've googled to death and can't find a way around it. Here is the situation.

I've a redhat server and a windows 2003 server. The windows box has a shared directory on it that I want to mount on the linux box. This I can do no problem using the following command:

mount -t cifs -o username=windowsuid,password=mypass //winservername/directory /mnt/directory

This all works perfectly however I need to mount this as a non root user. This is where I'm having difficult. I constantly run into "only root can do that".

I've edited the fstab and added the entry in there for the mount with the flag user or users and neither makes a difference. I've also tried editing the sudoers file and still the same.

Any ideas? I can add the user in question into pretty much every group however that essentially makes him a root user which is not what I want to do.

Try this:

yeah, tried that one as well. no joy either

This is working for me, allowing to mount a windows 7 share:

sudo /sbin/mount.cifs //winserverip/share /mountpoint -o username=winadmin,password=windadminpass,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

My distribution is opensuse 11.3

Gave that uid switch another run and that seems to have done the trick. Thanks all.