User mounting smbfs

[James Knott]

Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> 
>> I've been trying to configure fstab, to allow a user to mount an smb 
>> share, but it doesn't seem to work.  When I try to use the user or 
>> users options, I get an error.
> 
> 
> What are the permissions on the mount point? Unless you have 
> /mnt/wherever set to be rwx for the user, it most probably won't mount.
> 
> This is what mounts my mp3 share:
> 
> //squirrel/mp3 /mnt/mp3 smbfs 
> username=*****,password=*****,rw,users,noauto 0 0
> 
> And the /mnt/mp3 directory has 777 permissions.

When I try that, I get "smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct 
user mounts (1000,1000)
smbmnt failed: 1".  Changing smbmnt to suid, doesn't make any difference.

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