Easily mount SMB Share on Per User Basis
Gabriel Dragffy
dragffy at yandex.ru
Wed Mar 21 21:40:17 UTC 2007
Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> The below is a hack :) :
>
> You should just be able to use /etc/fstab
> (http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html). For some reason smbfs
> needs root privileges so doing it on login won't work. Try something like:
>
> //smb.yourserver.edu/ /home/username/smb smbfs
> username=username,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=700,password=PASSWORD 0 0
>
> You need to create a separate entry with the username, password,
> mountpoint, uid & gids for each users. That means all the directories
> will be mounted at the same time (which might be impossible if we're
> talking about a large number of users), but unix permissions should
> prevent users from seeing each others files.
>
> Also, make sure you run
>
> sudo chmod go-r /etc/fstab
>
> to stop users (in theory...) from seeing each others passwords.
>
> Matthew Flaschen
>
>
I've been trying to do something like this on my machine too. I edit
fstab as necessary, and then run sudo mount -a, it always gives me an
error about bad fs, bad superblock, bad option etc. I have tried every
combination I can think of :(
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