Mount with xfsamba

[Foxy]

Thank you very much for your response. You are right that /tmp is 
read/write for everybody, but a temporary mount point xfsamba creates 
there is not.

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Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:

>El dom, 02-10-2005 a las 18:48 +0100, Foxy escribió:
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>>I wonder how to properly mount shares with xfsamba? The problem is that 
>>is I try to mount any share I've got a message that only root can mount. 
>>OK, I enabled "Mount with sudo" option in xffm settings and it mounts 
>>the shares in /tmp directory ok. The problem now is that as sudo it 
>>makes the temporary mount point read only for a user, so I cannot do 
>>anything with it. How can I walk it around? Also is it possible to mount 
>>not in /tmp, but say in /mnt?
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>Since /tmp is read/write for everybody, then if you cannot write to a
>smb mounted volume it is probably because the access rights on the
>remote smb server do not permit writing with the user/password
>combination you used to browse the server. If no user/password was
>prompted, then "guest%%" was used and that user probably does not have
>write access on the remote server. Best thing is to configure the remote
>server *not* to allow browsing unless a valid user/password combination
>is used. Otherwise you can set the user/password combination by means of
>the mcs-manager or the environment variable SMB_USER.
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>OTH, you can also just list the mount characteristics and mount point
>you like in /etc/fstab and mount with the fstab plugin instead (fstab
>and xfsamba plugin will talk to each other if both are installed).
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>HTH.
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