Samba-fstab issues

[squeech]

Greetings all,

I'm in the process of building a web fileserver for myself and others that I know.

The system that I am running on is Drake 8.2, and I am having a little trouble with some of my samba mount points.

This system will have a few folders mounted on it from a few WinXP boxes that I have around here. When i run smbmount as root, each individual share mounts perfectly. However, I would like to translate these mounts to the fstab file so that I do not have manually reenter them should the need arise to reboot the server.

Currently, my entries look like this:

//compname/folder /home/user/mountfolder smbfs user,password=,uid=ed,gid=ed

And every time I boot the machine, Linux says "Access Denied" for each folder while mounting SMB filesystems.

What am I missing? When I run the mount under root, I am asked for a password and I simply press enter each time and it mounts great. Do I need to add something specific??

TIA

[squeech]

^_^

[nukes]

Do you specify the username when you mount it?
I mount my samba shares like this (not the most secure way I know)

//files/documents /mnt/network/server smbfs username=richard,umask=077,uid=richard,gid=users,rw,noauto,user 0 0

Your local user (in this case richard) has to have read/write access to the directory as well.
Make sure you didn't create the directory as root. Check it with ls -l.

[squeech]

Aha. It was indeed a login permission problem. After reading your post, I went back over the options directives for smbmount on the man page and I noticed the username directive. I was using the nfs title for user!

Also, you are right, the local uid and gid were cauing r/w issues with the specified directory.

Thanks for the inspiration!

[nukes]

Bugger. Double post

[nukes]

np, glad you got it sorted.
Now you can get at your fileserver for christmas