Samba and fstab

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:01AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

Actually I tend to think konqueror smb://server/share is much simpler
and nicer for regular users to access non permanent mounts.

Lennart Sorensen
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