I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the
following error:
smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
smbmnt failed:1
Now, this has worked in the past. I'm not sure if I changed anything,
however there has been one kernal upgrade since I
When I upgraded to 2.4.20 I had that problem.
As much as I hate making it suid I just went ahead and made smbmount and
smbumount as suid
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:33 am, you wrote:
I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the
following error:
smbmnt must be
Forgive me for being a dork, but how do I do that?
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:51, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
When I upgraded to 2.4.20 I had that problem.
As much as I hate making it suid I just went ahead and made smbmount and
smbumount as suid
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:33 am, you
haha
cd /usr/bin
chmod +s smbmount
chmod +s smbumount
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:26 am, you wrote:
Forgive me for being a dork, but how do I do that?
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:51, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
When I upgraded to 2.4.20 I had that problem.
As much as I hate making
Ok - now I'm a complete dork - I did the commands below, as root, and
now I get the following message when I try to mount:
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root. 1670:Connection to
ISS-LAPTOP1 failed
??
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:42, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
haha
cd /usr/bin
This is from linNeighborhood's website
(http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/faq/index.html#faq16)
libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root
We've heard about this error from RedHat 8.0 users and got some feedback how
to avoid it (we don't run RH8, so it is untested from our side). One fix
Tim Willis wrote:
I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the
following error:
smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
smbmnt failed:1
Now, this has worked in the past.
That seems unlikely. Unix systems don't let normal users go about
