--- Justin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey ya'll, > > I'm trying to connect to a share on my Windows box using smbmount, and I > am getting the following error: > "smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)"
If I recall (somebody back me up here) you have to have the smbclient installed, AND you have to make your mount as root. > I assume this means there is some sort of permissions problem, but I'm > not sure how [best way] to fix it. Any insight would be appreciated. > > the command I executed was: > $ smbmount //swordfish/dataraid /home/justin/work -o > ip=[the_ip_address] > > Running RHL8.0 kernel 2.4.28.24-8 > -- I've done it with this command as root and /data/test must be available to mount to: mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=foo //odin/documents /data/test What I haven't figured out is why does it have to be done as root and why can't I get my regular users access to it! David __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
