Thus spake MRZ: > 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?
Sounds like it might be a permissions issue - how are the permissions for /mnt/ and /mnt/ntbox set? Just a guess from what you've said so far. Good luck, Steve
