[clug-talk] mounting question

[Shawn]

That seems to have done it.

I installed smbfs (sudo apt-get install smbfs), which included the 
mount.cifs command.  From there I was able to do

mount.cifs //192.168.0.14/c$ /home/sgrover/remote -o 
username=user,password=pass

without having to do a "sudo".  So I put it into my script and things 
seem to be working more or less the way I want.  I'll know more when I 
reboot and reset the environment (openvpn is also involved....)

Now, I just need to figure out how to do umount without sudo.. :)  But 
this isn't as big an issue - I don't mind if the dirs stay mounted until 
I shut down the workstation...

Thanks for the responses.

Shawn

Shawn wrote:
> 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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