Hi everyone,

ok, i've been trying these two programs LineNeighborhood and xSMbrowser. Now, samba is running just fine, as root I can mount shares and everything, but when I use these two smb browsers or if I try to mount share as a user I get errors. To make the story short, this is the error message that the two gui smb browsers give me:

smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (1000,1000)
smbmnt failed: 1

Now I've try looking info on what the %&^% is the suid stuff, but I don't really understand any of it (man seuid). Heck I'm not really shure if that is the right way to go.
Now what I wanna be able to do, is use LineNeighborhood or xSMBrowser and be able to mount shares into my user directory without having to become root. Is it possible? I guess yes, but I don't know how to do it.
Anyways, if anyone can please help me it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Figa



ps:
Just in case, my distro is Slackware 8.1.

chmod u+s /path/to/whatever

rshaw, thanks for the quick response but I tried the suggestion

~$ chmod u+s share
~$

and LineNeighborhood still gives me the same error:
"smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (1000,1000)
smbmnt failed: 1"

Thaks
Figa

you chmod'ed 'share' you haven't chmod'ed /path/to/smbmnt

And just an FYI, SUID means that whenever the script is run, it runs as the script's owner, rather than the standard behavior of running as whoever is trying to run the script. Be careful how you use SUID as, obviously, it can open big security holes on files owned by root.

I think I may have explain this the wrong way. What I mean is that I created dir called "share" in my /home/figa folder. So I did a chmod u+s /home/figa/share. I didn't actally tried to chmo'ed the dir being shared by the other computer. Now, just to be shure, is this what you meant with <chmod u+s /path/to/whatever>?
Also, just out of curiosity, I tried "chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmount" but I soon found out that smbmount and smbumount will not run with this.

Figa

what about smbmnt? that is the file that linneighborhood calles on is it not????

I am having the same problem as figadiablo. If smbmount is not suid root then it tells me it needs to be:

> smbmount //compy386/home ./tmp/

smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
smbmnt failed: 1

and if it is then it tells me it cant be:

# chmod u+s ./smbmount
> smbmount //compy386/home ./tmp/

libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
8926: Connection to compy386 failed
SMB connection failed

my solution so far has been to use the "mount as root" option in LinNeighborhood but I find this annoying (especially since I dont want to use LinNeighborhood).

I read in another thread that if you chmod 700 smbmount then it will work fine. The problem with that is then I get a permissions error as my user no longer has exec permission on smbmount.

Any help in this area would be great! I am hoping it is just that I am doing it wrong...not a SuSE specific issue. Maybe upgrading to samba 3 would help....


Relevant info:
SuSE 9.0
Samba 2.2.8a-107

try
chmod u+s smbmnt
instead of smbmount

/* Fixed the typo */

Perfect! Thank you! That works great. Although I used "u+s". Maybe a typo on your part.

Yes a typo. Glad that it worked out.

Keep using Linux.

Figa

Is there a more secure way than this?

Of course. Stop using samba altogether. Use scp or WebDAV.
R.

I know I have come in on the end of this thread but I feel I must chastise the "moderator". This site i believe is where you come for help. The above quoted statement would mean absolutely nothing to a newbie as can be seen from your follow up comment below.

Maybe if you had used the word "smbmnt" instead of "whatever" in the first place it may have been more useful.

not working as either:

i am getting the same error as the OP when i try to mount a windows share using smbfs installed on RH9 laptop.

so something is wrong. in Debian i just apt-get install smbclient and smbfs and away i went. RH9 is giving me these fits.