On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
>
> > Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am
> > only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to another
> > user.
>
> Just a side note, have you seen smbtar?  Might be easier than mounting a
> directory and copying it, and then unmounting it.
>
> mdresser@monitor:~$ smbmount //mike/c test
> Password:
> mdresser@monitor:~$ df /home/mdresser/test
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> //mike/c              15498752   7959040   7539712  52% /home/mdresser/test
>

mdresser@monitor:~$ umount /home/mdresser/test
umount: //mike/c: not found
umount: /home/mdresser/test: must be superuser to umount

Humm.  This is very interesting :)

Bug in my mount program, I'd say.  Either shouldn't let me mount, or
should let me unmount.

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