On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:58:27 -0400 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/5/2003 11:52 AM, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote:
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:04:51 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:16:18 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Collins Richey wrote:
Is there any way to cause the mount not to prompt for a passwd? Hint, I have no defined users and do not log in to the WinXP
box.
If you put the appropriate line in /etc/fstab with password=,user= then you can just do 'mount /mnt/samba'. (Or it may have to be user=guest).
Thanks. It works with user=guest.
OK, now to dig a little deeper. The set of directories (it varies) that I'm wanting to access "appear" to have no common high level directory(they are anchored on the WinXP desktop), so I need to do a separate mount for each. Short of putting a big list in fstab, is there any way to get a given directory mounted for general use upon demand, either by command or by root command and make the
permissions>such that normal users can manipulate it?
After further experimentation
This works as root (no passwd prompt, no errors of any sort)
mount -t smbfs -o guest //name/Collins /mnt/smb-collins
But it does not work from normal user relying on fstab entry
//name/Collins /mnt/smb-collins smbfs \ noauto,user,guest 0 0
I get
mount //name/Collins cannot mount on /mnt/smb-collins: Operation not permitted smbmnt failed: 1
Any ideas?
Don't you need a username=guest line in there somewhere? Check 'man smbmount'
I've also tried that. The mount command works with either -o guest or -o user=guest,password= , but I've found no combination that will work in fstab.
Can't help you too much as I don't have a Windows share that doesn't have a password. But, I set the PASSWD environment variable, and added:
//192.168.1.8/Tim /mnt/share smbfs noauto,user,rw 0 0
to /etc/fstab and was able to mount the share with
'mount /mnt/share'
So perhaps setting USER=guest would work. Dunno if that's workable for you or not...
Did you try: //name/Collins /mnt/smb-collins smbfs \ noauto,user,rw,username=guest 0 0
Good luck, Tim
_______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
