[KLUG Members] smbmounting from fstab question

[Tim Gray]

You need to do the chmod u+s to smbumount as well.

--Tim

On Friday 27 December 2002 04:16 pm, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I though I had this one, but nope, still stumped.
>
> I need to be able to SMB mount/unmount via nautilus (right click on
> desktop, disks, blah blah).
>
> I got mounting working.
>
> chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt
> mkdir /mnt/tmp
> chown awilliam.users /mnt/tmp
>
> in fstab -
> //sardine/homedir     /mnt/tmp     smb
> username=billgates,password=isatwerp,uid=awilliam,gid=users,user 0 0
> (all one line of course)
>
> This lets me mount!  I get a cute little shortcut icon on the desktop woof
> woof.
>
> But I go to unmount and it tells me only root can do that. :(
>
> So obviously I'm missing something.
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Tim Gray
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