No joy.

typing in "mount" and doing tab-completion (as my regular user account), I get the following:

sgro...@peon:~/working_folder$ mount
mount          mount.fuse     mount.ntfs     mount.ntfs-3g  mountpoint

so, mount.cifs isn't there. However, my box *does* have smbclient installed. I'll try installing smbfs as well and see if that does the trick.

If it helps, my box is a more or less stock Kubuntu 9.04 install. Also, the purpose of my script is for backing up a couple of remote servers unattended, but user initiated. (i.e. start script and walk away).

Shawn

Hendrik Schaink wrote:
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


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