On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:35:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:04:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >> >> [a bunch of resolved cifs/smbfs stuff... ] >> >> >>> 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.... >>> >>> >> >> I;m jumping in here. What makes you think smbmount is going away? its >> still listed as a file in the sid versions of samba stuff. > The man page, as in ...
d'oh. (rtfm rtfm rtfm...) [...] > >> maybe the solution to your problem is to go right around it and use >> automount (can you use that with samba? I think so) and just set up >> automounts for everything that could be mounted. >> > I'm not really familiar with automount, but doesn't it require you to > pre-define the available mounts (as your question indicates)? That would > prevent Joe User 1 on his Windows box from sharing out a folder on Saturday > evening so Jane User 2 on the Linux box could get to the pictures from the > birthday party that day, unless the admin of the Linux box had already > foreseen that Joe User 1 would be doing that, in which case I suspect the > admin could be doing a lot better things with his prophetic gift than > adminning a Linux box. yeah, okay. I like wackojacko's idea - LinNeighborhood. automount won't do it for you. A
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