On Monday 30 March 2009 17:35:22 Hugo Mills wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:30:13PM +0100, Tim wrote: > > I thought I had this one beat, that was until i had to reboot my PC > > today (moved it and knocked the power lead). When it rebooted I > > noticed that the NAS was not mounted (it should mount from a line in > > the fstab file), when I tried to do it manually it told me that only > > root can mount the share, I did try it as root and it will mount ok. > > > > Well when I set it up I set it up with "uid" and "gid"and "guest" > > (see below) > > > > //192.168.1.250/openshare /media/openshare cifs > > guest,uid=1000,gid=100,rw,auto 0 0 > > > > (the uid is mine, the gid is the users group) > > > > Now I have tried using the "cred=" (see below) option and pointing > > it to a file that holds my username and password but it still refuse > > to mount and will only mount as root > > > > //192.168.1.250/openshare /media/openshare cifs > > cred=/home/mit/cifs.txt,rw,auto 0 0 > > > > Can somebody point me towards the answer why only root can mount it, > > I think the answer is staring me in the face but I can't see it?? > > You need the "user" option in the options section as well. This > gives permission (purely on the local machine) for a non-root user to > mount the filesystem. Otherwise, only root is allowed to mount/unmount > filesystems, even if they're listed in /etc/fstab. > > Hugo.
Thanks Hugo, unfortunately that did not work. After much head banging I think I have it worked out. I was trying to mount //192.168.1.250/openshare which I think was the problem as this is the folder that is preconfigured on the nas , instead I tried mounting //192.168.1.250/openshare/pictures which I can mount as a user and I can set the permissions on. Thanks for the help Tim ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
