Hello again everyone. I'm trying to configure my potato box such that any user can mount/unmount the share(s) on an NT box I have. Naturally when I say any, I mean any user who also exists on that NT box. Keep in mind that I'm not trying to make shares available to others from my potato box; for that I have samba installed. It's been explained to me that to do this I need simply go root, and add a reference for this share to fstab. Once this is done then any user can "mount /<mountpoint>", enter their p/w and it will be mounted for that user session.
Well I've made the entry as best as I understand, but am having a peculiar problem for which I ask everyone's help to solve. I would like to have this behave the same way for all users so I've chosen to make the mount point "/mnt/ntbox". Here is what I tried adding to fstab: "//ntbox/share /mnt/ntbox smbfs defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0" (without the quotes, natch!) So I then open a terminal and try "mount /mnt/ntbox"; I'm prompted for my password which I enter. But the process fails with: "cannot mount /mnt/ntbox: Operation not permitted smbmnt failed: 1" But: If I change the reference <mountpoint> to "/home/user/somedir" and repeat the attempt at a terminal, "mount /home/user/somedir" it works fine. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! Marc.
