Mounting smb shares - Fedora Core 5

[erlend_oyen]

Hi

Isn't smbmount part of Fedora anymore?, how do i mount a smb share whitout it? i have tried the: mount -tsmb

[ryuheixys]

okay, so its no longer smb, its now cifs (common internet file system). it caught me too a few days ago. so try that.
good luck

[erlend_oyen]

can you give an example of this usage?

[daihard]

Originally Posted by erlend_oyen

can you give an example of this usage?

You can use it just like smbmount... Here's the sample /etc/fstab:

//windows_machine/share_name  /mount_point cifs rw,noauto

[erlend_oyen]

thansk works great, but how do i let a normal user to use the "mount" command?

[daihard]

Originally Posted by erlend_oyen

thansk works great, but how do i let a normal user to use the "mount" command?

I don't have my /etc/fstab here, but I believe I added the keyword "user" so it looked like "rw,auto,user".

[jhetrick62]

If you read the man page, man mount.cifs, near the bottom it tells you that it can only be done if you install the setuid option.

I tried this also and here was the result.

[jeff@jeffserver ~]$ mount -t cifs //192.168.0.53/downloads /mnt/kids -o setuid
mount: only root can do that
[jeff@jeffserver ~]$ mount -t cifs //192.168.0.53/downloads /mnt/kids -o setuid=jeff
mount: only root can do that
[jeff@jeffserver ~]$ mount -t cifs //192.168.0.53/downloads /mnt/kids -o setuid,defaults
mount: only root can do that

I suspect that linneighborhood will overcome this, but I haven't tried that yet. Yes in old smbmount, you could mount with regular user by issing the "users" option.

Jeff