I want to be able to mount smb shares from fstab quickly and easily. I have the line:

//thor/docs /mnt/documents smbfs noauto,user,umask=000,user=bman,password=******* 0 0

But when I try to mount it from a user account I get the error message:

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

Is there a workaround for this? The only reference I could find in the redhat archives implied that there wasn't. It works in Gentoo without problem, so I know it's possible.

Thanks.

Hi

//server/share /mnt/dir smbfs username=user,password=xxx 0 0

Cheers

Yes, but that won't let non root users mount the share which is what I'm looking to do. It's when I add "users" to the options that things go wrong.

thanks

I placed the following command line into my .bashrc file in my home directory. This will mount your share.

# Auto Samba Server Mount
smbmount //host/user /home/user/mnt/dirname -o username=user,password=123456

Where host is an IP or fully qualified doamin name. User is the login name etc.

I think your terminal command would be for suid change:
chmod 4750 smbmnt

As an example the above command chmod 4750 /usr/bin/smbmnt the first octet 4 sets the SUID to the owner root, 7 rws (4+2+1) for the Owner which would be rwx if 4 for the SUID was not present, 5 r-x (4+1) for the Group and 0 --- for Others.

If your still confused then try this...

To be sure your settings are correct execute your File Manager Super User Mode and check the properties of each of the 4 files smbmount, smbumount & smbmnt. Compare the permissions and make any needed changes.

r00tnuke