FSTAB to allow user mount of network file using CIFS

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Hello,
I’ve entered the following in my fstab,

//dotwichfs03.dot.nebraska.local/office /home/bjohnson/sharedFile cifs uid=bjohnson,credentials=/home/bjohnson/pwdtxtfile,users,noauto 0 0

The above works when loggin as root, but not when logged in as bjohnson.

I’d like for bjohnson to be able to access this network file w/out having to log in as root and do a mount. Is there a way to do this w/fstab?

I’ve tried users=gid w/no luck. Thanks.

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portsample wrote:
> Hello,
> I’ve entered the following in my fstab,
>
> //dotwichfs03.dot.nebraska.local/office /home/bjohnson/sharedFile cifs
> uid=bjohnson,credentials=/home/bjohnson/pwdtxtfile,users,noauto 0 0
>
> I’d like for bjohnson to be able to access this network file w/out
> having to log in as root and do a mount. Is there a way to do this
> w/fstab?
>
> I’ve tried users=gid w/no luck. Thanks.

Try ‘gid=users’
See mount.cifs(8)

3

Nice try, no cigar- still only mounts from root.

4

On Sun April 19 2009 01:46 pm, portsample wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I’ve entered the following in my fstab,
>
> //dotwichfs03.dot.nebraska.local/office /home/bjohnson/sharedFile cifs
> uid=bjohnson,credentials=/home/bjohnson/pwdtxtfile,users,noauto 0 0
>
> I’d like for bjohnson to be able to access this network file w/out
> having to log in as root and do a mount. Is there a way to do this
> w/fstab?
>
> I’ve tried users=gid w/no luck. Thanks.
>
>
portsample;
It might help to read this HowTo:
http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambacifs.html

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

5

If I include “users,noauto” it prevents mine from mounting. Try it with these for the options:

//etc /etc cifs uid=bjohnson,gid=users,_netdev,credentials=/etc 0 0

6

This,

//dotnebfs01.dot.nebraska.local/common /home/bjohnson/SharedDrive cifs uid=bjohnson,credentials=/home/bjohnson/bin/cifspw,gid=users 0 0

causes this,

bjohnson@WIC-BJOHNSON2:~> mount /home/bjohnson/SharedDrive
mount: only root can mount //dotnebfs01.dot.nebraska.local/common on /home/bjohnson/SharedDrive

TIA for cogent wisdom or silver bullets.

7

Does it not mount at boot time? If answer is that it doesn’t, then use the option _netdev.

8

Who is the owner of the folder, wich you want to mount the share?
If the owner is root, try to ‘chown’ the folder.
I know it’s too simple, but it’s an idea too.

9

_netdev formatted like this:

//dotnebfs01.dot.nebraska.local/common /home/bjohnson/SharedDrive cifs uid=bjohnson,credentials=/home/bjohnson/bin/cifspw,gid=users,_netdev 0 0

I have also tried auto as an option w/no luck.

10

You’re very cryptic in your posts. Can you tell me
(a) whether this mounts at boot time
(b) whether it mounts at all
(c) what permissions it mounts with if it does mount
(d) what you do to make it mount

11

Sorry- I wasn’t trying to be cryptic.
-The network directory does not mount at boot.
-I mount this directory from the command line after su’ing to root by entering, “mount /home/bjohnson/SharedDrive”,
-while logged in as bjohnson I have read and write permissions.

Thanks again.

12

Seems that the problem now is the network name resolution doesn’t come fully on in time for the mount command in Yast to work.

Here are three tactics to try to overcome that:

  1. If you have a fixed IP address in the cifs server, you can try replacing the address //dotwichfs03.dot.nebraska.local/office with the IP version, something in the style of this: //192.168.33.10/office
  2. You’ve already added the option _netdev so that won’t help more, but I list it here for others
  3. Put a delay on the mount command by constructing a root cron job that calls the mount command “mount -a” after a 10 or 20 second delay with this crontable entry:
@reboot sleep 10;mount -a

The last one will work, the first one might work and is more elegant than the last one. For more on these, see the FAQ sections of this tutorial:
Samba: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Map Network Drive] in openSUSE 10 & 11 plus FAQs