On Saturday, June 25, 2016 12:26:59 PM wes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Friday, June 24, 2016 04:21:17 PM wes wrote: > > > > I do not see too many positives for using SMB on linux, without real > > > > samba > > > > > > user space mount option available. > > > > > > As much as I hesitate to spend any time advocating for M$-originated > > > technologies, I must say I do not see the challenge here. I mount SMB > > > shares (from all walks of OS life) in my userspace without any elevated > > > privileges all the time. When I need them to persist, I write a cronjob > > > > to > > > > > monitor their status and restore them as needed. > > > > Just wondering - Would you share how do you mount SMB in user space? > > I mean mount not type smb://serverName/dir into some sort of GUI browser. > > mount -t cifs //10.3.14.123/c$ ~/c -ouser=wes > > it then prompts for my password, and mounts the share > > -wes
Thanks, This is not user space mount though - it requires root access and imagine having 15 users not sharing passwords. This is the obstacle to using SMB on Linux as I see it. If you put the password to a file and protect it, then there is no user separation/access control as all the files on the SMB share will be owned by single user. If you figure out a way around mount for a user, and you have two different users trying to mount the same thing using different users - then you are toast too. If a user forgets to umount then you need root intervention too. I do not want to sound negative about usefulness of SMB on Linux - I was really hoped that someone knows how to make it work as per Unix/Linux. :-) Anyway, let's not hijack this post to SMB bashing. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
