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 > -- > Jacob Albretsen > Brigham Young University > Department of Physics and Astronomy > (801) 422-9291 || (801) 422-9272 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://astro2.byu.edu/~jake || http://www.xmission.com/~jakea > > This comment brought to you by the language "C" and the number 2^32 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from the BYU UUG discussion mailing list, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "UNSUBSCRIBE" as the message body > Visit the BYU UUG website at: http://uug.clubs.byu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the BYU UUG discussion mailing list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "UNSUBSCRIBE" as the message body Visit the BYU UUG website at: http://uug.clubs.byu.edu/
