Thanks a stack for all the help! much appreciated. The command # /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o username=jason,password=jason,gid=501,uid=500,fmask=664,dmask=755 worked nicely. The man page for smbmount is wrong, because there it talks about using -u and -g, which don't work. Here is the line I put in my /etc/sudoers file (Type in 'visudo' as root ) : %users ALL=/usr/bin/smbmount,/usr/bin/smbumount,/sbin/fuser, NOPASSWD: ALL I edited /etc/group and added myself to the group 'users'. The 'fuser'command is useful for killing any processes attached to the SMB mount when I am tring to un-mount it. Jason /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o > username=jason,password=jason,gid=501,uid=500,fmask=664,dmask=755 On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:14, H M Kunzmann wrote: > > I have enabled myself to use root passwords so that I don't have to > > su first. 500 and 501 are my UID/GID numbers respectively. > > What I find interesting is that even although I specifically state > > that the mounted files/directories are to be owned by me, the files > > still get owned by root, which means I can read the share but > > can't write to it as a normal user. Is there anyway I can force > > the smb filesystem contents to be owned by me once mounted? > > Try gid and uid. > You can also use fmask and dmask to set permissions... > > # /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o > username=jason,password=jason,gid=501,uid=500,fmask=664,dmask=755 > > > B.T.W. This share is a Windows server shared by all of the employees > > here. I wanted to be more specific by mounting the share > > ..maxxsrv/Staff Directories/Jason, but the smbmount command could > > not find that share, and it does exist! I tried quoting "Staff > > Directories" and that didn;t work either. I have been at this for over 2 > > hours now and still no joy. Any suggestions? > > You can't mount ..maxxsrv/Staff Directories/Jason since it's not a > share, it's a subdirectory of a share. Perhaps you can create the mount > to the share, and then create a soft link to the subdirectory you want > to use ? -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
