mounting for non-root users

Laurie Savage sav at pvgsc.vic.edu.au
Tue Apr 19 00:39:35 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 09:24 -0400, Todd Slater wrote:
> I'm trying to mount Novell shares using ncpmount. I can do it using sudo
> but I'd like to be able to do it as a regular user. Here's what I've
> done:
> 
> 1. created dir /mnt/novell
> 2. sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/ncpmount
> 
> When I try to mount the volume I get the error "Cannot to mount on
> /mnt/novell: Operation not permitted"
> 
> Obviously there's some permission issue I'm missing, but I don't know
> what it is. Thanks for any help,
> 
> Todd
> 
I created a $HOME/.nwclient file (man nwclient is good), issued
"ipx_interface add eth0 802.2" and "ncpmount -u <localuser> -g <gid> -f
1711 $HOME/Novell" works.

Still can't set up printer drivers for Netware printers though!

Laurie





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