Hello Dan! On Saturday 09 August 2003 02:20, Dan Jones wrote:
> [...] > A beer went down really good about then. I then abandoned mount and > fstab, and mounted the partition by calling mount.smbfs directly as > root. Wonder of wonders, success! However, I'd still like to know > how to add the line to fstab so that a user can mount an smbfs > share. Here it works like this: ,----[ from my box ] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep ^// | //sleep/Desktop /sleep/Desktop smbfs user,noauto,fmask=660,dmask=770,username=XXX,password=XXX,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /sleep/Desktop/ | wc -w | 0 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /sleep/Desktop | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /sleep/Desktop/ | wc -w | 23 `---- Naturally the fstab entry has to be all on one line... HTH, Flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

