On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:04 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > On 8/23/05, Ankush Grover <ankush174@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 8/23/05, brouwers roland lx <roland@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > I have a client with a MSserver and a server Fedora3. > > > On te MsServer every user has a home dir. > > > I would like to mount his homedir on the MsServer everytime he logs in. > > > I thought of inserting a line into /etc/fstab > > > //HisComputer/HisShare /mnt/MyMount smbfs noauto,user 0 0 > > > And put a mount /mnt/MyMount into ~/.bashrc > > > and do the umount in ~/.bash_logout > > > But somehow it does not work. > > > > > > Linux refuses to mount as a normal user > > > so i have to use sudo. > > > Is there a better way? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Roland > > > roland@xxxxxx > > > > > > > One way > > run smbmount and smbumount with setuid > > > > chmod u+s smbmount > > chmod u+s smbumount > > > But ofcourse security problems. > > > Or you can mention the owner of the home dir with uid and gid in fstab > > //HisComputer/HisShare /mnt/MyMount smbfs uid=515,gid=515 0 0 > > Now user with uid 515 and group with id 515 has all the rights on > their home directory. > > Regards > > Ankush Grover Sorry for sending you this message directly, but I must have a solution the latest tomorrow. I changed this chmod on smbmount but then I get the message $ mount /mnt/pcleen libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root. 22339: Connection to 192.1.1.1 failed SMB connection failed You need also to know that the password for Linux and MsServer is different, because of Lx security. I installed linneighborhood. But I do not understand what is happening, in other words, nothing is. I see the lx Server and his mounts Que pasa? Roland