Mounting smbfs as user?

[Andriy Gapon]

on 18/10/2007 17:29 Ivan Voras said the following:
> Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
> 
>>> The same command works under root, and the appropriate klds are loaded:
>> Only superuser can load modules. If you try to load module by regular
>> user you will get: kldload: can't load xxxx.ko: Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> To clarify: the modules were loaded before I tried either as user or as
> root.
>

This doesn't seem to be entirely smbfs-specific, but rather specific to
internal workings of iconv modules. Here's some information from a while
ago:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-December/031501.html

I didn't get any useful information since then and still have to use a
workaround of doing any mount as root to get iconv initialized first and
then all subsequent user mounts are successful.
While on one hand this seems like only a minor annoyance, on the other
hand it indicates a problem in iconv internal workings and this should
be considered a bug as this breaks a user-mount feature.

Probably a PR is due here, I was just too lazy to open it when I first
hit the problem.

-- 
Andriy Gapon