fstab and mounting filesystems in 12.04

[Colin Law]

On 31 July 2012 17:15, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 07/31/2012 10:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 30 July 2012 21:50, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a fstab entry in 12.04 LTS
>>>
>>> ip-address:/filename    mountpoint    nfs noauto,users,rw,hard,intr
>>>
>>> Having this entry in the previous LTS version would allow any user to
>>> mount
>>> the network file system, however when a user tries to mount the file
>>> system
>>> with 12.04 they receive an error message telling them they must be root
>>> to
>>> mount the file system.
>>> I checked the fstab man pages and it looked like users should be user so
>>> I
>>> changed this and rebooted but a regular user still can't mount the file
>>> system. Does anyone know what I need to change to get this working with
>>> 12.04. I really would like normal users to be able to mount and umount
>>> the
>>> nfs file systems.
>>
>> What is the command the user is using to mount the fs, and exactly
>> what is the error message?  Ideally copy/paste from terminal.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> The command is actually a bash script that normal users call from a menu.
> Here is the line from  the file
>
> mount 192.168.1.19:/usr/local/lib/letters /usr/local/letters
>
> When  I run it as a normal user in 12.04 I get
> mount: only root can do that.
>
> The script file works fine for sudo  and it works fine for regular users on
> the 10.04 LTS machines   I want all of my users to be able to mount nfs
> filesystems and I do not want them to have admin privileges which is why I
> have the fstab entry which has worked perfectly for all previous versions

I think you should only need to do
mount /usr/local/letters
as the rest is in fstab, does that fail in the same way?

Colin