On 23 May 2005, at 14:55, Brett Parker wrote:

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Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:

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I am using 'smbmount' to mount a Windows file system on a directory in $HOME on my Linux box. This works for a user if smbmount is SUID.

However I don't seem to be able to umount the file system except as root, it just says:- umount: /home/chris/win is not in the fstab (and you are not root)

The umount executable is alread SUID but this doesn't seem to help.

*WHISPER* - you know you used smbmount to mount it... take a look at the other smb* commands... there's one called "smbumount" ;)

I don't think that's actually the issue. Chris, you need to set up an entry in /etc/fstab for this with the option user which allows non-root users to mount and umount the share. Something like this:

//sambamachine/samba-share/ /mnt/samba smbfs user 0 0

Cheers

Dave

-- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:55:01PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:

Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:

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I am using 'smbmount' to mount a Windows file system on a directory in $HOME on my Linux box. This works for a user if smbmount is SUID.

However I don't seem to be able to umount the file system except as root, it just says:- umount: /home/chris/win is not in the fstab (and you are not root)

The umount executable is alread SUID but this doesn't seem to help.

*WHISPER* - you know you used smbmount to mount it... take a look at the other smb* commands... there's one called "smbumount" ;)

... hmph, that's cheating - there's no reference to smbumount in the "See also" section of the smbmount manual page! :-)

Thanks!