From: Kurt Sys Subject: smbfs and mount Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:22:03 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E31763B.1000002@rug.ac.be> Reply-To: kurt.sys@rug.ac.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux Newbie Hello, I have some troubles with mounting/unmounting smb-filesystems. I have some smbfs-entries in my fstab and they mounted at startup (which is as it should be). However, if I don't login as root, I can't mount/unmount them,because # unmount: only root can umount //labmetserver/students from /mnt/labmet/students I would like to not mount them at start-up, but mount them whenever I need them. This works with the options 'noauto' and 'users' for CD's, zipdrives, ntfs etc, but not for samba filesystems. So, I can mount/unmount as 'ordinary' user as long as don't try to mount/unmount samba filesystems. The options in fstab simply don't work for smbfs. Is there any solution? thanks in advance, Kurt Sys PS: By the way, I still have a problem with mounting samba filesystems correctly, see an earlier mail of me to this list. I always get the message # session request to LABMETSERVER failed (Called name not present) I would like to get rid of this too... Anyway, be prepared, I'll send you detailed information next week :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs