Samba and fstab

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:20:07PM -0400, Martin Duclos wrote:
> I'm having a problem with samba shares. I'm trying to get a samba share 
> mounted as a regular user but I get the following error:
> 
> mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> 
> the mount cifs doc doesn't tell me much. Does anyone know how to get a 
> regular user to mount a samba share on fedora core 2? Used to work fine 
> with core 1. Actually, what I used to do was to set the UID to a local user 
> so that user coudl then own the share...
> 
> Here's what I have in fstab:
> 
> //computer1.home/duclosm    /mnt/duclosm              cifs    
> username=duclosm,user,noauto,rw 0 0
> 
> I know that the user parameter is used to allow users to run mount... I 
> must be missing something here...

I have never seen cifs there before, only smbfs or smb or something like
that.  Is cifs some new name for it?

I also didn't think regular users could do smb mounts, although I never
tried either.

Lennart Sorensen
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