Another attempt to get user rw privileges for samba shares

Jeebizz · 01-10-2006, 11:47 PM

Well, I took a look at this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...k_File_Sharing, and followed it's instructions, and I restarted, and my samba share got mounted, woohoo, however, I still don't have rw privileges as a normal users, and also, I unmounted it successfully, as a normal user, but when tried to mount it again, I got another error message stating..

Code:

slackuser@slacker:~$ mount /mnt/network
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
336: Connection to minamoto failed
SMB connection failed
slackuser@slacker:~$ mount //minamoto/files
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
338: Connection to minamoto failed
SMB connection failed

And so this is what my fstab looks like.. What should I do, in order to get a normal user to be able to mount, and rw to it without having to su to root?

Code:

//minamoto/files /mnt/network  smbfs credentials=/home/slackuser/.smbmnt,rw,users,umask=000 0 0

migs · 01-11-2006, 04:35 AM

try this

Code:

chmod 04711 smbmnt

then try to mount it.

Jeebizz · 01-11-2006, 02:38 PM

Nope, still doesn't work

gilead · 01-11-2006, 04:32 PM

The following is copy/pasted from http://my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-...?msg_id=0002y2:

Quote:

PROBLEM SOLVED! Here're the details (archived someplace, I hope, in case I
ever have to look them up again).

The final working /etc/fstab entry is:

//unethome/UNETNAME /home/LOCALNAME/unetdir smbfs
noauto,users,workgroup=USERS,username=UNETNAME,uid=nnn,gid=nnn 0 0

It might work with the username=USERS\UNETNAME format but specifying
"workgroup=" explicitly is working so I'm not going to try another change.

When I only had option "user" the user could mount but not umount. Using
option "users" (with an s) let's the user mount AND umount. (See details
below.)

The various permission errors (mount, smbmnt, smbmount, the "libsmb ..
must not be SUID" error, etc.) were fixed as follows:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 68508 Sep 25 2003 /bin/mount

-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 30816 Sep 25 2003 /bin/umount

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 9824 Feb 11 13:57 /usr/bin/smbmnt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 665944 Feb 11 13:57 /usr/bin/smbmount

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7424 Feb 11 13:57 /usr/bin/smbumount

mount, umount and smbmnt are "s"; smbmount and smbumount are NOT "s".

The user can now "mount unetdir/ " successfully. ("mount //unethome/UNETNAME" also works.) To umount, "umount unetdir/ " gives an error about multiple mounts (as shown in /etc/mtab) but when "umount //unethome/UNETNAME " is used

Hope it does the trick.

Jeebizz · 01-11-2006, 04:47 PM

No, it still doesn't work.

raska · 01-11-2006, 05:18 PM

as long as I know, you should su to root in order to mount samba shares. check out sudo

Jeebizz · 01-11-2006, 05:28 PM

I've always been doing that, but its more of a hassle, and I want not only to be able to mount a samba share as a normal user, but also write to a samba share as a normal user, not as root/sudo.

soulestream · 01-11-2006, 07:40 PM

umask doesnt work the same way on samba as it does other file systems.

umask=000 on samba is ---

remove the umask and change it to

//server/share /mnt/network smbfs credentials=/pathto,rw,users,fmask=0777,dmask=0777 0 0

i think you can just use umask=777, but i always do it the above way.

unmount the volume and remount it

sorry i just saw the normal user thing

with "users" any user should be able to mount / unmount the fmask/dmask will give all users rwx

soule

Jeebizz · 01-11-2006, 08:00 PM

Ok, well I made the following changes, after I unmounted the SMB share..

Code:

//minamoto/files /mnt/network     smbfs users,rw,credentials=/home/slackuser/.smbmnt,fmask=0777,dmask=0777 0 0

Still nothing...

Code:

slackuser@slacker:~$ mount //minamoto/files
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root.
1574: Connection to minamoto failed
SMB connection failed
slackuser@slacker:~$

[edit]

However, as soon as I mount the share as root, I CAN now read and write to it as a normal user, why can't I mount it as a normal user still?

soulestream · 01-11-2006, 10:00 PM

i think you best bet is going to be use sudo to mount with as a regular user
or do what i do and just put it in /etc/fstab and let it automount at boot up

I have been chmod'ing everything i can think of and nothing.

chmod u+s, usually works. its either a slack thing (which i doubt) or its a samba thing (which is possible)

soule

Jeebizz · 01-11-2006, 11:37 PM

Yea you're right, I am leaving it up to fstab, so that works, glad that I can at least write to a SMB share without having to su to root now.