Easily mount SMB Share on Per User Basis

[Clive Menzies]

On (22/03/07 16:11), Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> > I believe smbfs is now depricated for cifs.
> > 
> > Try loading the cifs module (I use modconf)
> > 
> > and then I do:
> > 
> > //server/share /smb/share     cifs  credentials=/home/user/.smb_pass,uid=user,gid=group,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770  0       0
> > 
> > 
> > YMMV
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  That let me switch to cifs (bound to be necessary eventually,
> right :) ), but had to use the noperm option because my uid and username
> on this machine and the server don't match.  I put the mountpoint in my
> home directory (which is 0700), which should mitigate the security
> vulnerability.

Yes. differing uids on various machines is a problem; currently with
relatively few PCs and servers, I've harmonised ours but I really ought
to bite the bullet and get my head around LDAP, Kerberos and central
authentication and login.

Regards

Clive

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