On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:16 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:34, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > > > I suggest using autofs to mount them automatically on demand. > > > > <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html> > > > I was able to get it working but I don't have rw on the files in the > > > mounts. How to I get that working? > > [...] > > > tweety -fstype=smbfs,rw,username=me,password=pass > > > ://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot > > > > I'm not sure how to do this with smbfs; someone with more Samba experience > > than me can probably help. At casual glance, looks like you're doing the > > right thing on the client system. > > I don't think so. I think the problem is on the client side with autofs, > or more directly with mount. Because autofs mounts the files as root, I > don't have rw persmissions, or so it seems. I know for a fact that om > the samba side, on the machine I'm connecting to, I have full rights. I > can use the same username/password from and windows box and connect to > the same share and I have full rights. create, delete, modify, etc > > Since only root can run mount how do you map drives and have rights to > be able to make changes on those drives while logged in as a non-root > user? ---- I am used to entries in /etc/fstab and haven't made them in autofs but I would have thought that it would be structured like... tweety //192.168.1.20/tweetyroot smbfs,user,rw or in the order you present it... tweety -fstype=smbfs,user,rw ://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot and the user supplies his login name and password to actually make the mount. Craig
