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List:       linux-newbie
Subject:    smbfs and mount
From:       Kurt Sys <kurt.sys () rug ! ac ! be>
Date:       2003-01-24 17:22:03
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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 :-)



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