-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:42:59 -0500, Tom Kovalcik wrote:
> I need some method to allow users to mount windows shared drives on a > Linux machines (running samba) and have full access and permissions to > the files (read and write). I can mount the drives as root using > mount -t smbfs //joescomputer/c ~joe/mywindisk but mywindisk is owned > by root and joe cannot write to it. I did find the user option which > fixes the write issue, but I must provide joe's password to connect. > On top of everything, I would prefer if root did not have to mount the > windows drives and regular users could do it themselves when they > needed to. (I did try adding the mounts to fstab, but that required > joes password in plain text.) Is there a good way to accomplish this? > The Linux machine is running RH 8.0 and the windows OS's are XP pro, > 2000, NT4, and 98. All this is covered in the "smbmount" manual page as pointed to by "man mount" section smbfs. For instance, to avoid putting a readable password into /etc/fstab, you use a "credentials" file as explained in the man page. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+N/vA0iMVcrivHFQRAi27AJ97o2ZwE/XrUeRtagB7fTnpya6ZRQCYnitL TBGCWc/6A1WaDvpsy/ONoA== =IfYr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
