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  From: James Leone <Jleone@pacbell.net>
  To  : Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>
  Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 21:08:44 -0700

Re: Samba client for Linux

It is guest only access. I have no passwords.

I had a script in init.d, and I was sucessful in mounting the shares. 
However, because they are mounted before I log in as james, they are 
designated as being owned by root. So I can't save anything from my 
Linux workstation into the samba share when logged in as a regular user.

James



Michael Wardle wrote:

> James Leone wrote:
>
>> I am trying to set about 10 Linux workstations as Samba clients 
>> (guest accounts) with an automated share mount, but it appears that 
>> smbfs(?)only allows root to mount these shares as a guest. I tried 
>> using the chmod +s command on smbmnt/smbumount but no luck.
>
>
> The mount command that's called to mount a SMB share is "smbmount" or 
> "mount.smbfs", so if you wanted to setuid the samba mount binaries, 
> you'd have to do those as well.
>
> Do you need to specify a username?
>
> To get the workstations automatically mounting a share on boot (or 
> whenever "mount -a" is run), I'd put a line something like this in 
> /etc/fstab...
>
> //SERVER/share /mnt/share smbfs -o username=username,password=password
>
> Hope this helps
>


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