fstab and mounting filesystems in 12.04

[Linda]

On 07/31/2012 11:33 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
Thank you that solves the problem.
              Linda