From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 22:14:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD72437B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694B643E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:14:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikemcg@ucla.edu) Received: from pool1206.cvx36-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.22.186] helo=NEELIX) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 188wym-0003EM-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 22:14:25 -0800 Message-ID: <00e001c28492$9b505520$1a00a8c0@HOME> From: "Mike McGranahan" To: Subject: mount_smbfs problems Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:14:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello, i am using samba 2.2.4 on freebsd 4.6.2 release. is it possible to mount smb shares using mount_smbfs with a non-root account? or do i have to use sudo? when i try to mount an smb share off my windows xp box onto my freebsd box, i get the following: ~$ mount_smbfs //neelix/mike /mnt/mike Warning: no cfg file(s) found. mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (default:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted however, when i run the same command as root, it works as expected. furthermore, smbclient works under a unpriviledged account. there were no messages outputted to my log files. i've been google'ing for hours, as well as poring through man pages and documentation, and the samba list archive. i would very much appreciate your help. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message