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5 <refentrytitle>smbmnt</refentrytitle>
6 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
11 <refname>smbmnt</refname>
12 <refpurpose>helper utility for mounting SMB filesystems</refpurpose>
17 <command>smbmnt</command>
18 <arg choice="req">mount-point</arg>
19 <arg choice="opt">-s <share></arg>
20 <arg choice="opt">-r</arg>
21 <arg choice="opt">-u <uid></arg>
22 <arg choice="opt">-g <gid></arg>
23 <arg choice="opt">-f <mask></arg>
24 <arg choice="opt">-d <mask></arg>
25 <arg choice="opt">-o <options></arg>
30 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
32 <para><command>smbmnt</command> is a helper application used
33 by the smbmount program to do the actual mounting of SMB shares.
34 <command>smbmnt</command> can be installed setuid root if you want
35 normal users to be able to mount their SMB shares.</para>
37 <para>A setuid smbmnt will only allow mounts on directories owned
38 by the user, and that the user has write permission on.</para>
40 <para>The <command>smbmnt</command> program is normally invoked
41 by <ulink url="smbmount.8.html"><command>smbmount(8)</command>
42 </ulink>. It should not be invoked directly by users. </para>
44 <para>smbmount searches the normal PATH for smbmnt. You must ensure
45 that the smbmnt version in your path matches the smbmount used.</para>
50 <title>OPTIONS</title>
55 <listitem><para>mount the filesystem read-only
61 <listitem><para>specify the uid that the files will
62 be owned by </para></listitem>
67 <listitem><para>specify the gid that the files will be
68 owned by </para></listitem>
73 <listitem><para>specify the octal file mask applied
79 <listitem><para>specify the octal directory mask
80 applied </para></listitem>
84 <term>-o options</term>
86 list of options that are passed as-is to smbfs, if this
87 command is run on a 2.4 or higher Linux kernel.
98 <para>Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Michael H. Warfield
101 <para>The current maintainer of smbfs and the userspace
102 tools <command>smbmount</command>, <command>smbumount</command>,
103 and <command>smbmnt</command> is <ulink
104 url="mailto:urban@teststation.com">Urban Widmark</ulink>.
105 The <ulink url="mailto:samba@samba.org">SAMBA Mailing list</ulink>
106 is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs.
109 <para>The conversion of this manpage for Samba 2.2 was performed
110 by Gerald Carter</para>