SICK OF STUPID OWNERSHIP RULES!!

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 20.04.2005 schrieb Richard Crawford um 15:20:

> > IIRC LinNeighbourhood does not mount SMB shares.
> 
> If you're using KDE, you can use KNetAttach to create a permanent link to a 
> remote Samba share, now that I think about it, then browse that share in 
> Konqueror.  I do that at work.

With LinNeighbourhood does not mount I meant, that it uses smbclient and
not smbmnt/smbmount. Can't say what KDE does with a "permanent link".

> > An example line for mounting an SMB share you find in the previous
> >
> > posting of this thread which you even quote yourself:
> > > > >//hagrid/path/to/music /home/richard/Music  smbfs  
> > > > >uid=500,gid=504,fmask=777,password="xxxxxxxx" 0 0
> >
> > While I feel an "fmask=777" makes simply no sense. And the password
> > shouldn't be stored in the fstab but use of a credentials file should be
> > made. Please see "man mount" for more details.
> 
> To be honest it's been something like three years since I set that up.  It 
> seems to work just fine, though I can't remember if I really needed the fmask 
> or not.  I'll revisit it.  Thanks for the tip.

Ok :) I puzzled myself with fmask for fat mounts. While there fmask has
the meaning of an umask for files, with smbmount fmask stands for the
real permissions (=>umask=000).

Alexander


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