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diff --git a/docs/manpages/smbmnt.8 b/docs/manpages/smbmnt.8 index 0bd87a70fc..7364ccbda8 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/smbmnt.8 +++ b/docs/manpages/smbmnt.8 @@ -20,24 +20,35 @@ smbmnt \- mount smb file system .SH DESCRIPTION .B smbmnt -is a little helper application for the smbmount program. smbmnt is -meant to be installed setuid root to enable normal users to mount -their smb shares. Smbmnt checks whether the user calling it has write -permissions on the mount point and then mounts the directory. +is a helper application used by the +.BI smbmount (8) +program to do the actual mounting. +.B smbmnt +is meant to be installed setuid root so that normal users can mount +their smb shares. It checks whether the user has write permissions +on the mount point and then mounts the directory. + +The +.B smbmnt +program is normally invoked by a mount command to +.BI smbmount , +and the command line arguments are passed directly to +.B smbmnt. +.SH OPTIONS .B -u .I uid, .B -g .I gid .RS 3 A Lan Manager server does not tell us anything about the owner of a -file. Unix requires that each file has an owner and a group it belongs +file, but Unix requires that each file have an owner and a group it belongs to. With .B -u and .B -g you can tell smbmount which id's it should assign to the files in the -mounted direcory. +mounted directory. The defaults for these values are the current uid and gid. .RE @@ -52,19 +63,33 @@ Like and .B -g, these options are also used to bridge differences in concepts between -Lan Manager and unix. Lan Manager does not know anything about file -permissions. So smbmount has to be told which permissions it should -assign to the mounted files and direcories. The values have to be -given as octal numbers. The default values are taken from the current -umask, where the file mode is the current umask, and the dir mode adds -execute permissions where the file mode gives read permissions. +Lan Manager and Unix. Lan Manager does not know anything about file +permissions, so +.B smbmnt +must be told which permissions it should assign to the mounted files +and directories. + +The values must be given as octal numbers. The default values are taken +from the current umask, where the file mode is the current umask, +and the dir mode adds execute permissions where the file mode gives +read permissions. Note that these permissions can differ from the rights the server -gives to us. If you do not have write permissions on the server, you -can very well choose a file mode that tells that you have. This -certainly cannot override the restrictions imposed by the server. -.RE +gives to us. If you do not have write permissions on the server, +you should choose a file mode that matches your actual permissions. +This certainly cannot override the restrictions imposed by the server. +In addition to specifying the file mode, the +.B -f +argument can be used to specify certain bug-fix workarounds. +This allows bug fixes to be enabled on a per mount-point basis, +rather than being compiled into the kernel. +The required bug fixes are specified by prepending an (octal) value +to the file mode. +For information on the available bug workarounds, refer to the +.B smbfs.txt +file in the Linux kernel Documentation directory. +.RE .SH SEE ALSO .B smbmount(8) |