Hi,
This may not be a Samba specific issue I am having but it came up when working with samba shares specificaly so I thought I would ask here first. Please feel free to redirect me to more appropriate sites if needed.
I am running Samba version 3.0.4 on Slackware 10. I am running into a problem with being able to allow a normal non-root user to either mount samba shares or regular disk shares but not both. I have made my smbmnt suid and have no fstab entries for the samba shares.
Without any other changes I can mount samba shares as my normal user. Problem starts when I try to also allow the same user to mount disk partitions. In order to have the same user mount disk partitions I have added the following lines to my fstab file as per documentation I have found:
/dev/hdb1 /backup/staging reiserfs user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda1 /backup/media reiserfs user,noauto 0 0
Now this doesn't seem to work until I "chmod u+s /bin/mount" and "chmod u+s /bin/umount". Once those have been suid(ed) the mounting of samba shares breaks with the "mount: only root can do that" message.
What I find odd is that I need to apply the suid bit on the binaries even with the "user" definition in the fstab file. If this is more of a "mount" and "fstab" configuration issue please let me know. I am happy to provide more information if needed too.
I'm sure that there is a way to allow a regular user to mount both samba shares and disk partitions but how to do that is unfortunatly escaping me for the moment. Thanks for the help.
Chris
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