-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kent West yazmış: > > So it appears there's something screwy about the cifs filesystem-type. > So this issue remains. > > Another one of my issues was that smbmount all of a sudden (after my > rebuild) started mounting the shares with the mount point being owned by > root. With this working "mount -t smbfs" command, the addition of the > uid= option takes care of that issue. > > And finally, the last issue remains: if mount normally must be run by > root, how can I give non-root users access to mount shares without > knowing before-hand what shares to pre-populate /etc/fstab with? > > It would be much easier just to continue using smbmount, but like I say, > I'm trying to be a good, forward-going sort of guy rather than living in > the fading past.... > > Thanks! > Here is my scripts to sync laptop and desktop:
sync-lapt-desk: #! /bin/sh echo "enter the sudo pass:" sudo /home/tejas/Desktop/bagla #mount script if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then echo "couldn't mount"; exit 1 ; fi echo "syncing firefox..." && rsync -rv --delete /home/tejas/Desktop/firefox/ /your/firefox/profile/ && echo "example1 synced." echo "unmounting shares..." sudo /home/tejas/Desktop/ayir # unmount script bagla:(mount script) SHA="masaustu firefox thunderbird Downloads" if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "you must be root."; exit; fi for i in $SHA; do echo "mounting $i..." mount -t cifs -o iocharset=utf8,user=hede //192.168.2.2/$i /home/tejas/Desktop/$i sleep 3 if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then echo "mounted $i."; fi done and ayir: (unmount script) #! /bin/bash SHA="masaustu firefox thunderbird Downloads" if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "you must be root"; exit; fi for i in $SHA; do sudo umount -l /home/tejas/Desktop/$i sleep 5 done Notice here; this script mounts as a root, but sync as a normal user. And IIRC, this script works. (I tried it on Dapper and Etch.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRpYulnCg+7fCe3L1AQLc6QgAo/28A/KXsG2UgcjKTbtapSatseB1syHE EGgCCGQa7gefs4yzX8yS1vqeZ6/aqXYJ25mi/vO9l6nzV2FTeYnz6hXHT8DfOGPz VC/fFMCNKB3jtjNL1m4v8JxGqtJztT30s6UoPhpArQzecXPbq63PQYFiTXnYYvy3 rmMsAU0Rczo1yE2+edygyP9FClxNegwOZ7SFb/yLT3ggAQHiu1TQA5FaPgY5DwKe huRlZoE5wBSJIf/xtS0lwxuNkl5HKueZNu4GFmXhcJgMSyWNs3WrjRAf57GzG1Y0 MA8bNSzP3uto1vNhRwR0/piHK9VHsXJeyYDe8r0FOWPEeTg70xm38Q== =zF2R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]