User mounting iso file, smb shares

CP · 05-19-2003, 09:46 AM

How can I give myself permission to mount iso images, and also smb shares. When I try to run smbmount as a user I'm told that samba needs to be installed suid for user mounts, but doesn't say how to do this. And when I try to mount iso images using the -o loop flag it doesn't let me, I have to be root for both of these. Any suggestions
Cheers
CP

#2 · 05-19-2003, 11:39 AM

can you create a wheel group with root privs?

**deepfreeze** · 06-01-2003, 04:05 AM

I am having almost exactly the same problem. I can see and connect to my linux partitions on my XP box, and by using LinNeighborhood, I can "see" the shared folders on my XP box, but it is impossible for me to mount them, either through LinNeighborhood or the console...here is the error I am getting

Code:

[root@protium root]# mount -t smbfs //HOMENETWORK/XPBOX/Media /mnt/windows/media
602: Connection to HOMENETWORK failed
SMB connection failed
[root@protium root]#

trying to use the -o option makes the whole thing not work at all. Yes I have run smbpasswd -a and added a user and password that are identical on both boxes. Anyone with any knowledge of this would be super!

CP · 06-01-2003, 05:08 AM

Don't bother with the workgroup name, just use
mount -t smbfs //XPBOX/media /mnt/windows/media
CP

**pbharris** · 06-01-2003, 05:20 AM

back in the day when my wife used ms windows i have this in /etc/fstab

Code:

//sparches/c /net/sparches smbfs username=pbharris,password=thisisabadpassword,noauto 0 0

**deepfreeze** · 06-01-2003, 07:22 PM

[quote author=CP link=board=1;threadid=7052;start=0#66112 date=1054444135]
Don't bother with the workgroup name, just use
mount -t smbfs //XPBOX/media /mnt/windows/media
CP
[/quote]

Ahh yes...now all is working wondefully! Thanks CP