Mounting Samba Shares ad user

hobz · 06-17-2005, 06:06 PM

Guys
I had an old version of samba 2.something
i tried mounting samba shares as user and it worked
since I have upgraded to the latest samba
then typing command chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmnt & trying chmod a+s /usr/bin/smbmnt
trying also the same with /usr/sbin/smbmount
I get the message only root can mount shares
any idea ( other than downgradig )

Noth · 06-17-2005, 10:10 PM

I've been using smbmount with Samba 3.x for a while without any issues (well other than smbfs suckage), so it should work fine. smbmnt should be setuid root, but smbmount should not. And I don't know if it matters, but don't set all of the setuid bits with chmod a+s, just set the user bit.