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user mode mount question
Posted by George on June 25th, 2004


Hi,

Is there a solution to mount a winnt network share in user mode
that is not to use standard 'mount -t smbfs' command.

The problem is that I have no permission to use standard 'mount -t smbfs'.

Or maybe there is a plugin for 'mc' that can be used with winnt share as if
it was mounted fs.

Thanks
George


Posted by Simon Barner on June 25th, 2004


["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.]

Generally, the vfs.usermount sysctl allows ordinary users to mount file
systems.

However, this currently doesn't work with smbfs. See this thread on the
freebsd-current mailing list:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ne/029583.html

So, for the time being I'd suggest using sudo (ports/security/sudo).

Simon