Hi there,
In Redhat 4.x, we can use 'smbmount' to mount another linux samba server with 'user1'.
But now we used redhat 5.3(64bit), there is no smbmount and I can only user mount command via root.

How can I mount a folder via 'user1', not root?

(BTW, I can run '#mount hostname:/sharename /mnt/u1,
but the access right of /mnt/u1 is only for root.)
$ls -la
drwxrwxr-x root:root 4096 May 18 2010 u1

I wish it is "user1:user1"
drwxrwxr-x user1:user1 4096 May 18 2010 u1

I also edit /etc/fstab and add the following in.
hostname:/sharename /mnt/u1 noauto,user1 0 0

mount: only root can mount xxx on xxx.
It still doesn't work.

Pls help.


Thanks.

Phil

Hi,

Setup and use sudo.

It's the only right way i can see, to do what you wanna do.

Hi Chirel,

Thanks for your reply.

Even I can use sudo to mount, the ownership is root:root, not user1:user1.

Do you have any ideas on the ownership issue?

Thanks.

Phil

You should have given sudo access to mount.cifs not mount
Then check man mount.cifs and take a look at the uid= and gid= optins to solve the issue.

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Hi there,

I played with mount.cifs and uid,gid, failed without any luck.

My problem is my samba version is newer than the destination samba version.
Mounting from Redhat linux to Slackware linux.

To make it work, I use mounting via SSH.

Install fuse-2.6.5 & sshfs-fuse_2.2 into Redhat.
Now it works.

Regards,
Phil

^ good idea. using samba to go from linux to linux is akin to translating from english to french back to english again.