mounted samba shares disappear
 

have suse 9.2 pro installed from dvd
have samba set up and i am using kde. most everything is default
i can browse to windows shares fine and access them completey using the smb:// protocol
when i try to mount the share however, it disappers from konqueror.
if i go to a cli and ls the folder i get an error Permission Denied.

i have used two different commands as follows and both have the same result
both times i am prompted for my password and the cli comes back. as i watch this in a konqueror window the folder /media/suse disappears and only comes back when i umount the share

my user name on my suse box is the same as on my windows box with the same password and yeah i am mounting and umounting as root (su)

any ideas?

i presume the files are accessible AS root? i'd assume that you are mounting the shares with a permissions mask that will only allow root access. consequently those permissions get applied to the folder, and poof... it's no longer accesible to non root users. try adding fmask=000 and dmask=000 options temporarily to open up the permissions of the mount considerably.also try adding an /etc/fstab entry, with a "user" option, which will allow you to mount it as non root and then the share should be owned by that user, not root.

well, not sure where to use the dmask and fmask options. i put this line in my fstab file
but dont think it is right. when i run smbmount i have to pass it my password, where do i put that in on the fstab file?

so trythis isn't very secure though... i would recommend that as a long term fix.

Here is a link to a page on 'smbmount'.
I wonder if you are seeing the mentioned bug:
You might try as root 'rcsamba status' to see if smbd is running. I don't think that there is an 'rcsmbmount' command but you could try '/etc/rc.d/smbmount status' instead.

If you put an entry in /etc/fstab you will want to use the credential option rather than have the password in your /etc/fstab entry. The options are included inf the fstab entry after the mount point The options are also comma seperated.