On debian, the samba fielsystem mount command used to be smbmount, which is now linked to /sbin/mount.smbfs which in turn is a wrapper for mount.cifs. Interestingly, the permissions for /sbin/mount.cifs are '-rwsr-wr-w' which _should_ allow anyone to mount cifs shares.
I suggest mounting using mount.cifs HTH, Hendrik Shawn wrote: > I'm trying to execute the following command in a script: > > mount -t cifs -o username=$user,password=$pass //192.168.0.14/c$ > $MOUNTDIR/remote > > I'm getting told that only root can do this. The local directory in > question is owned by my user account, and I need to run the script as > that user - not as root. > > I'm trying to remove the need to use sudo and/or enter passwords here to > help automate things.... > > Sooo, what am I missing? Does my user account need to be added to a > group so it can use mount? > > Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
