[KLUG Members] smbmount questions

[bill]

Thanks for the replies, I need to clarify one question.

If I have a local directory with files in it, and I smbmount with that directory
as the mounting point, I don't see that I have -any- access to them.  I did it
by accident once and thought I lost the files.  Upon smbumount-ing I saw they
were still there.  What (or where) is they're status while the share is mounted?

thanks,

bill

Richard Zimmerman wrote:

> > If I run two identical smbmount commands (essentially re-mounting the same
> > network share to the same mountpoint) what happens?  Do I later need to
> run
> > smbumount twice?
>
>   when you run a ps-ax you will see multiple smbmounts for that share. It
> does not affect it operationally. Also, you will have to issue a mount for
> EACH instance that it is mounted. I discovered this with an errant script
> that would mount shares all day long but a typo prevented it's unmounting.
>
> > If I run smbmount and set the mountpoint to that directory, what happens
> to
> > those files?
>
>    You have really good access to them! :-)
>
> > Being as running smbmount seems to require being logged in as root, if I
> run
> > smbmount in a script, is it possible to do su or something similar?
>
>     My scripts all run as a cron job so they assume root automatically as I
> don't assign them to anything else.
>
>    Richard
>
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