[ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition

[Michael Trausch]

I have to wonder why it is that users cannot generally mount things in their
home directory without additional privileges. All that *should* be required
is access to the device node (or loopback file, or the network) and
ownership of the mount point.

Hurd has it, and Linux has it only for FUSE filesystems like sshfs (and only
because it uses root for the mount operation, if memory serves). Why?

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On Feb 2, 2011 10:54 AM, "Richard Faulkner" <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> Alas...I spoke too soon...Hotel California is no longer stuck in my head
> and the "solution" for
> the Ubuntu box no longer works. (Funny...it was working last night!)
>
> [Rich scratches head...]
>
> Searches of the Ubuntu forum found how to do it with smbfs and how to
> edit fstab but with
> passwords in plain text. (I read the whole thing shaking my head
> wondering "why?") That
> was a long shot but will return to working on a cifs solution to
> persistently mount the remote
> NTFS share on 9.10.
>
> For anyone who's interested, here's what I'm trying to do...all new to
> me...
>
> Mount \\Studio\Production to ~/Studio so that my wife (the user) can
> easily access data on
> her production system and allow gFTP to easily see the Production share
> on a remote XP box
> as a local resource on Ubuntu. (XP only lives in this posting because
> of the h/w used...it requires
> M$ drivers for a broadcast audio card -- no Linux equivalent available
> due to the DSP.) It would
> be good for her to be able to write data back to the NTFS share. (Keep
> in mind that I'm keeping
> the Window$ box offline thus don't want to do FTP from there...)
>
> Here's the command I've used to attach the share:
>
> mount -t cifs //ip-addr-of-pc/Production /home/username/Studio -o
> username=workgroup/username,password=password
>
> This mounts the drive alright but it isn't persistent. Last night I
> thought I had it but this morning it's a
> different story.
>
> So far I've found that Ubuntu doesn't understand how to resolve the
> Window$ box by NetBIOS name
> but Samba is running fine and resolves the workgroup and host machines
> on the workgroup as well
> as their shares. Ubuntu does resolve by IP just fine. (I suspect this
> is due to mappings that would be
> analogous to a host file in M$ or a service that needs to be
> installed/configured but am too new in this
> regard to *NIX to be sure...)
>
> More fun & games!
>
> RinL
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>
> Reply-to: rfaulkner at 34thprs.org, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:00:37 -0500
>
> Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! Now I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all day
> long!!!
>
> Arrgh....... : )
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Mount a remote NTFS partition
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:14:39 -0500
>
>
> Richard Faulkner wrote:
>> Thanks to all who responded to this thread. Special thanks to Michael
>> Warfield!! CIFS did the trick and I have everything running the way it
>> needs to run. My wife's FTP client sees the share properly and she can
>> find it where it needs to be in the fs. A great learning curve item for
>> one coming from M$ to *NIX. So much further to go...but at least I have
>> no plans of going back! : )
>
> You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!
> :)
>
>
>
>
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