My problem is that I am only able to write to samba shares as root (i.e. the drives on my windows box that are being shared). I've tried chmod-ing both the mount directory and the share itself (after mounting), to rwxrwxrwx. When I change the permissions for the mount directory it goes well and the permissions are set accordingly but doesn't get me read or write access to the share. When I mount the share the access drops to rwx-r-xr-x. When I tried chmod-ing the share, although the chmod command doesn't complain of an error, the modifications do not take place.

Does anybody have any idea how I can resolve this

While I'm here I may as well mention, my attempts to get the share into fstab have been unsuccessful. I have added ...

//Nova/d /mnt/D smb username=user,password=pass 0 0

to my fstab but it complains that the line isn't valid when the system boots. Not the most revealing of errors. It mounts fine with the line...
mount -t smb //Nova/d /mnt/D -o password=pass

Thanks to anyone who has the time and inclination to reply.

Neuronet.

your problem is with your fs designator. use smbfs instead of smb. try this line

//Nova/d /mnt/D smbfs username=user,password=pass,uid=<username on linux>,gid=<groupname on linux coinsiding with *nix user> 0 0

this will say that you are the owner of the folder. one other thing you may try, mount the win to a folder under /home/<user>/samba_mount. this is what i do for ease and accessibility. just some ideas.


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almost forgot about the "rw" at the end. that will give read/write permissions to you.
here is mine
//WINXP-BOX/WINXPSHARE /home/joe/xpdrive smbfs username=!JOE,password=<**********>,uid=joe,gid=joe,rw 0 0

<**********> is replaced by my winxp password that i am not going to put on the net. it coincides with the username <!JOE>.

Hey thanks for that :-)

It got my share mounted by fstab.

Just one more question.

That allows me to write to the share as the user I specify, but not the other members of the same user-group. Is there any way I can add other users to that, or preferably a group.

I tried specifying just the group (gid=vanilla) but that didn't work, so I think I can safely presume that's because the permissions are rwxr-xr-x, so only the user can write.

I can't seem to change the persmissions to rwxrwxr-x with charmod though.

Again, thanks for your time & energy :-)

Neuronet

try taking out the uid and gid and replacing them with something similar to the other mounts on the fstab. it may look like:

//Nova/d /mnt/D smbfs username=user,password=pass,users,rw 0 0

give this a try.

When I tried that the user went back to root and I could only write to the share as root again.
with the entry...
//Nova/d /mnt/D smbfs username=user,password=pass,user,rw 0 0

Thanks :-)

maybe you can creat several mounts. one for each user with their own access. meaning put the mount under "/home/<user>/mount_folder" for each user. and make an fstab entry for each user. understand?? kool.

Neuronet, I've been having the same problems for a couple of days now. But tonite, after doing some more indepth research (google.com/linux) I hit gold. it all involves setting the fmask and dmask settings ( just like the umask if it was a vfat partition you were mounting).

This is what my fstab line looks like now:

//figax/D /mnt/smb/figax/D smbfs username=administrator,password=,fmask=0777,dmask=0777,rw 0 0

Now I can write and delete with both of my regular users.

Hope this helps.
Figa

Hoorah!

Thanks folks, it's going!

just fyi...

I made the owner group = vanilla (my plain users) and user fmask=0775,dmask=0775 to set the group write permissions on.

Thanks for the help folks :-)

Neuronet

Is anybody here able to mount shares as a nonroot user. Like for example, if I use LineNeighborhood to browse the network, and then I try to mount a share in my own directory, LineNeighborhood wil complain with the following error:

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

Any ideas. I've been searching for a solution to this for quite a while. Now that I know how to mount shares (as root) so that anyone can read and write to them, it would be nice to be able to mount them as a user in my own directory too.

Cheers,
Figa

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You would need to do two things to make the drive mountable by a user.

1. make the directory /mnt/smbshare world writable
(where /mnt/smbshare is the directory that you want to mount to) with chmod 777 /mnt/smbshare
2. edit the fstab to make the device writable to users and also mountable.

your fstab entry needs to have the following...

//Winbox/Share /mnt/smbshare smbfs password=pass,gid=groupname,fmask=0777,dmask=0777,rw,user 0 0

The bits of importance are the fmask & dmask parts (to make sure the share is accessable to plain users - as described above) and the user part to make sure the drive is user mountable.

That's from what I understand. I've done it with other drives but never a share, though I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Hope that helps,

Neuronet.

, finally, after days of breaking my head, trying to do this, I was able to fire up LineNeighborhood as a regular user and mount network shares in my own folder. Now I don't need to become root, or neither do I have to type it in in fstab. Well, for those who might be interested, as root type in these commands:

chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt
chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbumount

these to will enable the users to mount and umount the shares to their respective drives.

Thought this might be interesting,
Figa

Everytime I've tried to do that (chmod u+s), smbmount complains that smbmount MUST NOT be setuid root. Any other suggestions?

is it smbmount or smbmnt???


Figa

Aren't they virtually the same? I tried it on smbmount/smbumount not smbmnt.