Changeset e75747d1

Timestamp:

06/06/2005 04:27:33 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

c951082

Parents:

ade9c75

Message:

Fixed typos and added a note about unprivileged users mounting SMB shares to the Samba server instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4557 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• basicnet/netprogs/samba3-client.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• server/major/samba3.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

basicnet/netprogs/samba3-client.xml

@@ -17 +17 @@
 
   <para>The <application>Samba</application> client utilities are used to
-  transfer files to and from, mount volumes located on or use printers
-  attached to Windows and other SMB clients. If you want to install these
+  transfer files to and from, mount SMB shares located on or use printers
+  attached to Windows and other SMB servers. If you want to install these
   utilities, the instructions can be found in Chapter 21 &ndash;
   <xref linkend="samba3"/>. After performing the basic installation,

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
 
   <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>June 6th, 2005 [randy]: Added a note to the Samba instructions
+      about unprivileged users mounting SMB shares.</para>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>

server/major/samba3.xml

@@ -187 +187 @@
 
     <sect3>
+      <title>Mounting Shares by Unprivileged Users</title>
+
+      <para>If it is desired for unprivileged users to directly mount (and
+      unmount) SMB shares, the <command>smbmnt</command> and
+      <command>smbumount</command> commands must be setuid
+      <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>. Note that users can
+      only mount SMB shares if the share is owned by that user, and the user
+      has write access. If desired, change these programs to setuid
+      <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> by issuing the following
+      command as the <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> 
+      user:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>chmod -v 4755 /usr/bin/smb{mnt,umount}</userinput></screen>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
       <title>Printing to SMB Clients</title>
 
@@ -642 +659 @@
         <term><command>mount.smbfs</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>is a symlink to <command>mountsmb</command> which provides
+          <para>is a symlink to <command>smbmount</command> which provides
           <command>/bin/mount</command> with a way to mount remote Windows
           (or <application>Samba</application>) fileshares.</para>