Non-root user editing automatically mounted smb share

[tad1214]

Hi,

I'm sure this is fairly simple but I can't seem to find a good answer. All solutions require editing the devfs file and since these aren't in /dev it really wouldn't work....

I have a smb share on another server to hold all my music, when I am a user, I can not edit data in this mount point.

I have this line in my /etc/fstab
//tdonnelly@otter/music /mnt/Music smbfs rw,-N

How to I make it so non root users can edit data in the Music directory?

Thanks!
-=Tom

[kazcor]

Never dealt with this, but maybe the switches mentioned in mount_smbfs(8) are what you're looking for?

-u uid, -g gid
User ID and group ID assigned to files. The default are owner
and group IDs from the directory where the volume is mounted.

[tad1214]

Hmm... where would I put this in my fstab though?

[BSDfan666]

Well, perhaps the same way you added that -N flag... *sigh*

//tdonnelly@otter/music /mnt/Music smbfs rw,-N,-g smbgroup

[phoenix]

Or, configure your Samba server to use force group on the share, set the create mode to give group write access, and put all your remote users into that group on the Samba server.

[tad1214]

Hmm.... I don't think its an issue with the samba server as when I use Konqueror it works just fine (via smb:// rather than /mnt/Music).

changed my fstab to this

//tdonnelly@otter/music      /mnt/Music        smbfs   rw,-N -g 0 -u 1001

I also tried

//tdonnelly@otter/music      /mnt/Music        smbfs   rw,-N, -g 0, -u 1001

and If I do the following:

Barracuda# ll /mnt/
total 22
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16384 Dec 31  1969 Music

so that would tell me that the user is not being applied.

[kazcor]

Sorry, my mistake
Of course, fstab handles whitespace as delimeters between the various fstab fields. So if you need to specify options that require further parameters, you will require some sort of workaround.
I don't know how the fstab is parsed, so maybe even this solution may help:

//tdonnelly@otter/music   /mnt/Music   smbfs   rw,-N,-g\ 0, -u\ 1001

In any case as mentioned in the manpage, it should be possible to assign the user/group settings to the destination directory, before mounting to get this issue solved.

Another way would be to create a script in /sbin that does the dirty work for you. E.g. create something like mount_smbfs2 which then calls mount_smbfs with the correct options and in the fstab provide smbfs2 as filesystem type

[robbak]

I think you should be able to strip all the spaces out of that string, like this:

//tdonnelly@otter/music      /mnt/Music        smbfs   rw,-N,-g0,-u1001

(goes to check man fstab)
(checks google)
hmm, not a lot of information about it.

That said, the default user and group for smb filesystems (and msdos too) is the user and group of the directory entry it is mounted on. This is the way I have always dealt with user:group issues.

[tad1214]

Originally Posted by robbak

That said, I the default user and group for smb filesystems (and msdos too) is the user and group of the directory entry it is mounted on. This is the way I have always dealt with user:group issues.

Success!
Mounted in /home/TDonnelly/music/

RW access.