Subject: Re: SMBFS
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/09/2004 11:42:25
Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use mount_smbfs to access a remote Windows share:
>
> mount_smbfs -I remote.server.name -W campus -u jschauma	\
> //jschauma@remote/jschauma /mnt
> Password:
>
> This only succeeds if I do this as root.  As a regular user, I get:
> mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Operation not permitted
>
> Tracing it:
>    763 mount_smbfs CALL  open(0xbfbfed84,0x2,0x4805429c)
>    763 mount_smbfs NAMI  "/dev/nsmb0"
>    763 mount_smbfs RET   open 3
>    763 mount_smbfs CALL  ioctl(0x3,_IOW('n',0x6a,0x4),0xbfbfedc4)
>    763 mount_smbfs GIO   fd 3 wrote 772 bytes
> [...]
>    763 mount_smbfs RET   ioctl -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted

Setting sysctl vfs.generic.usermount=1 might help.

Jun-Young