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Old 25th October 2008
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Default Mounting samba share as normal user

I'm trying to mount samba share on my freeBSD laptop as a normal user but I'm getting an error.

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> mount_smbfs //user@REX/data /mnt/user
Warning: no cfg file(s) found.
mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted
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but same thing as root is working fine. Found nothing on the internet too.
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Old 26th October 2008
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Last I heard, this was because only root is allowed to setup the kernels iconv table.
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Old 27th October 2008
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You could try using sudo, although I prefer mounting the Samba share from /etc/fstab during boot.
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Old 27th October 2008
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Im using sudo to mount smb share as normal user, too. But dont give a normal user the right to explicitly execute mount_smbfs command without supplying password, a better practice would be:

- Put the mount command in a script.

- Run visudo to make change in sudo config file.

- Give yourself the right to execute that script without password (option NOPASSWD).
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Or, configure /boot/loader.conf to load all the needed smbfs/iconv modules, such that when you run the mount command, it doesn't have to load anything. Then normal users can run the command without resorting to sudo hacks.
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