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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : James Leone <Jleone@pacbell.net>
  Date: 29 May 2002 13:59:54 +0930

Re: Samba client for Linux

Yeah, I had that problem.

from rc.local:

su - ant -c "mount /mnt/server" &

The fork is to stop it stopping the box from finishing booting in case
something breaks and hangs it up. 

Ant


On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:38, James Leone wrote:
> 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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