<quote who="Dave Kempe"> > how do I make samba connect as somebody?
By not specifying "public = yes" (which means "guest ok = yes"). That's very likely going to be a security issue, given what you're sharing. > does that make a difference to the scripts not running? It doesn't specify explicitly in man smb.conf, but there is a second set of preexec parameters for running stuff as root, so I would assume the standard preexec stuff is being run without the required privileges. > (actually, watching the process list - the scripts do run, but fail to > mount the drive) How about: root preexec = /bin/mount /bigdisk If that doesn't work, make a handy logfile to see what the problem is: root preexec = /bin/mount /bigdisk 2>&1 >> /tmp/bigdisk-mount.log - Jeff -- GU4DEC: June 16th-18th in Dublin, Ireland http://www.guadec.org/ No match for "LINUSWEARSTHEPANTS.ORG". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
