On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 10:14, Jacob Albretsen wrote:
> I am confused.
> 
> On some machines, I can smbmount to the physics server just fine, but on 
> others, I need to be root.  Specfically, on the three machines I put Mandrake 
> 8.2 on, I don't need root, but on the Mandrake 8.0 and on my lap top running 
> 7.3, I need to be root.  I have tried looking at the perms and some stuff I 
> know, but I guess I am missing something.  This is the error I get:
> 
> smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
> smbmnt failed: 1

Yes you'll need to make sure /usr/bin/smbmnt is setuid root.  To make it
so:

chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt

Michael


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jake
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