That seems to have done it.
I installed smbfs (sudo apt-get install smbfs), which included the
mount.cifs command. From there I was able to do
mount.cifs //192.168.0.14/c$ /home/sgrover/remote -o
username=user,password=pass
without having to do a "sudo". So I put it into my script and things
seem to be working more or less the way I want. I'll know more when I
reboot and reset the environment (openvpn is also involved....)
Now, I just need to figure out how to do umount without sudo.. :) But
this isn't as big an issue - I don't mind if the dirs stay mounted until
I shut down the workstation...
Thanks for the responses.
Shawn
Shawn wrote:
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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