[clug-talk] mounting question

[Shawn]

No joy.

typing in "mount" and doing tab-completion (as my regular user account), 
I get the following:

sgrover at peon:~/working_folder$ mount
mount          mount.fuse     mount.ntfs     mount.ntfs-3g  mountpoint

so, mount.cifs isn't there.  However, my box *does* have smbclient 
installed.  I'll try installing smbfs as well and see if that does the 
trick.

If it helps, my box is a more or less stock Kubuntu 9.04 install.  Also, 
the purpose of my script is for backing up a couple of remote servers 
unattended, but user initiated.  (i.e.  start script and walk away).

Shawn

Hendrik Schaink wrote:
> 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
> 
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