Re: [SLUG] Problems with smbmnt and fstab... still

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 13:32:28 EDT

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Russ Wright wrote:

> I'm still working on the smbmnt issue. Below is a copy of the fstab. The
> error message I get is that root is the only one allowed to mount.

When you try to mount what?

> What did I do wrong?

> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> //clinical/Main /mnt/Main smbfs owner,noauto,rw,username=guest 0 0
> //clinical/Public /mnt/Public smbfs owner,noauto,rw,username=guest 0 0
> //clinical/QC /mnt/QC smbfs owner,noauto,rw,username=guest 0 0
> //clinical/R&D /mnt/R&D smbfs owner,noauto,rw,username=guest 0 0
> //clinical/Study /mnt/Study smbfs owner,noauto,rw,username=guest 0 0

mount(8) says:

+--
|The owner option is similar to the user option, with the restriction that
|the user must be the owner of the special file.
+--

Is this the case? 

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