"mount" as a user

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:16 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:34, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > > > I suggest using autofs to mount them automatically on demand.
> > > > <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html>
> > > I was able to get it working but I don't have rw on the files in the
> > > mounts. How to I get that working?
> > [...]
> > > tweety   -fstype=smbfs,rw,username=me,password=pass
> > > ://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to do this with smbfs; someone with more Samba experience
> > than me can probably help. At casual glance, looks like you're doing the
> > right thing on the client system.
> 
> I don't think so. I think the problem is on the client side with autofs,
> or more directly with mount. Because autofs mounts the files as root, I
> don't have rw persmissions, or so it seems. I know for a fact that om
> the samba side, on the machine I'm connecting to, I have full rights. I
> can use the same username/password from and windows box and connect to
> the same share and I have full rights. create, delete, modify, etc
> 
> Since only root can run mount how do you map drives and have rights to
> be able to make changes on those drives while logged in as a non-root
> user?
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I am used to entries in /etc/fstab and haven't made them in autofs but I
would have thought that it would be structured like...

tweety //192.168.1.20/tweetyroot  smbfs,user,rw

or in the order you present it...

tweety -fstype=smbfs,user,rw ://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot

and the user supplies his login name and password to actually make the
mount.

Craig