"mount" as a user

[Robert Nichols]

James Pifer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:41, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:16:30PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>autofs doesn't mount files; it mounts filesystems. 
> 
> Yes, bad explanation on my part...
> 
> 
>>I don't know how smbfs
>>works; if you mount a FAT filesystem directly, you have to specify a user
>>who will own all of the files, because there's not such a concept
>>intrinsically.
> 
> How do you specify the user that will own the files? Seems like no
> matter what I do root owns them. (From Craig's response) I tried
> specifying 'user' and my own username like this(see after rw):
> tweety   -fstype=smbfs,rw,user,username=jpifer,password=pass
> ://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot
> OR
> tweety   -fstype=smbfs,rw,myuser,username=myuser,password=pass
> ://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot
> 
> I'll have to play around with other file systems, like NFS, and see what
> I get. 

I'm no expert on automount, but for smbfs I'd take a look at
`man smbmount` and pay particular attention to the uid, gid,
fmask, and dmask options.

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Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net