'user' option in fstab

[pajamabama]

Maybe yast does the trick for you?

any more specifics? Which Yast module are you refering to? I haven't found one to manage mount points.

[teraya]

You need "setuid" on the mount/umount.cifs files... (otherwise, only root can use them).

[root@toreador ~]# which mount.cifs umount.cifs | xargs chmod -v u+s
mode of `/sbin/mount.cifs' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)
mode of `/sbin/umount.cifs' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)

[relay_denied]

I looked for quite a while to solve this as well and found this link:

http://www.bobpeers.com/linux/mount

Look to the bottom. It seems users my no longer mount with mount.cifs. Do we agree? Kind of a bummer.

-EDIT-

I saw the 2nd page and the post before mine after adding my post. I decided to try the suggestion:

[root@core5 sbin]# chmod -v u+s mount.cifs umount.cifs
mode of `mount.cifs' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)
mode of `umount.cifs' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)

It didn't seem to work so I decided to go back to original state:

[root@core5 sbin]# chmod -v u-s mount.cifs umount.cifs
mode of `mount.cifs' changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
mode of `umount.cifs' changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)

Now i can't mount at all and get this error:

[root@core5 sbin]# mount //datalognote/data
retrying with upper case share name
mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs( manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Now it's a real bummer, any ideas?

[teraya]

In order to help you, please post the results of these commands...

cat /etc/fstab

smbclient -L //datalognote

(If your fstab contains your password, remember to xxxxx it out when you post it here).

[relay_denied]

Thank you very much for returning my post, very kind.

This was partly my bad and now not such a bummer, but the user running the command still exists, maybe also me.

The share name on the XP machine had a character appended to it yeilding the error 6. So I retried the commands you posted:

[root@core5 ~]# chmod -v u+s /sbin/mount.cifs /sbin/umount.cifs
mode of `/sbin/mount.cifs' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)
mode of `/sbin/umount.cifs' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)

The result to the user was:

[pault@core5 /]$ mount /mnt/note
mount: only root can mount //datalognote/data on /mnt/note

is not fact that filetype cifs in fstab is suppose to invoke mount.cifs? man page snip:

'It is usually invoked indirectly by the mount( command when using the "-t cifs" option.'

maybe it's only from the command line?

Here is the data you asked for from an otherwise working config:

[root@core5 ~]# smbclient -L //datalognote
Password:
Domain=[DATALOGNOTE] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
SharedDocs Disk
Data Disk
Downloads Disk
Domain=[DATALOGNOTE] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
[root@core5 ~]#
[root@core5 ~]#
[root@core5 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
//datalognote/data /mnt/note cifs rw,noauto,username=pault,password=addyourown,uid=5 00,gid=500 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0


Thank you again for your time and response.