[clug-talk] mounting question

[Hendrik Schaink]

On debian, the samba fielsystem mount command used to be smbmount, which
is now linked to /sbin/mount.smbfs which in turn is a wrapper for
mount.cifs. Interestingly, the permissions for /sbin/mount.cifs are
'-rwsr-wr-w' which _should_ allow anyone to mount cifs shares.

I suggest mounting using mount.cifs

HTH, Hendrik


Shawn wrote:
> I'm trying to execute the following command in a script:
> 
> mount -t cifs -o username=$user,password=$pass //192.168.0.14/c$
> $MOUNTDIR/remote
> 
> I'm getting told that only root can do this.  The local directory in
> question is owned by my user account, and I need to run the script as
> that user - not as root.
> 
> I'm trying to remove the need to use sudo and/or enter passwords here to
> help automate things....
> 
> Sooo, what am I missing?  Does my user account need to be added to a
> group so it can use mount?
> 
> Shawn