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Old 01-08-2004, 08:23 AM   #1
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Question Mounting samba drive as user...


Hi,

I'm on Slackware 9.1 and was trying smb4k when I noticed that you can't mount a network drive as a regular user...
So does anyone know how to make changes (some permissions I suspect) so it becomes possible to run smbmount as user?

Greetz 'n tnx,
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Old 01-08-2004, 08:48 AM   #2
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you need setuid to mount and smbmount
but smbmount usually works fine with users, but you need to specify correct creditentials like

mount -t smbfs //winpc/myshare /mnt/somedir -o username=YourName, password=YourPass
 
Old 01-08-2004, 11:45 AM   #3
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nope I get:
smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (501,501)
smbmnt failed: 1


any idea
 
Old 01-08-2004, 12:25 PM   #4
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If you want smbmount to work for a normal user, install it suid root. In general, you need root privileges to mount/unmount filesystems, for obvious reasons, so the simple solution is to make smbmount run with root privileges. Type the following as root:

# chmod a+s `which smbmount`
 
Old 01-09-2004, 01:11 AM   #5
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$> smbmount //HOST/SHARE /mnt/share/ -o username=xxxxxx
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
1093: Connection to HOST failed
SMB connection failed

same command as root does work...
 
Old 01-10-2004, 02:29 AM   #6
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I found the problem, for some reason, it is not smbmount that must be setuid, it is smbmnt. I had to see it right away in the error message, but didn't...

still thanks for all help!
 
Old 05-24-2004, 10:51 PM   #7
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ellava, could you post what you did to make this work so others can benefit from your experience. I did chmod a+s `which smbmnt` and still get the error saying libsmb based apps should NEVER be suid root.
 
Old 05-25-2004, 08:55 AM   #8
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Post how I solved it??? Well it is there isn't it. Euhm... well doing chmod a+s `which smbmnt` solved it for me. The thing I was doing wrong was that I didn't do chmod a+s `which smbmnt` but did chmod a+s `which smbmount`.

hope it helps although I posted this before on this thread
 
Old 05-25-2004, 08:35 PM   #9
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Sorry, I thought you had done more while off-line to solve the problem. I was having a similar issue until I added a line in fstab for the share I was after.
 
  


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