"Only root can mount" error - but I am root
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Yesterday I was able to mount my smb share with the following command:
sudo mount -t cifs //XXXX/share /media/share -o user=Ben,password=XXX,workgroup=WORKGROUP,ip=XXX.XX.XX,uid=ben,gid=ben,rw
I don't know why it is not working anymore. (Maybe from system update).
I got the following error :
mount: only root can mount //XXX.XXX.XXX/share on /home/ben/share
I don't know how to fix this problem..
I've also tried to mount it with su -, and Smbclient is working.
I'm Running ArchLinux.
Asked by Ben D
(691 rep)
Mar 1, 2012, 08:00 PM
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