The error message during VMware setup (vmware-config.pl) is due to the fact that Suse 9 has a too new package for the requested library:
/usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The following fixes the problem:
ln -s /usr/lib/libpopt.so.1 /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0
If you have executables (programs, scripts), that need root privileges to run (e.g. that mount something), you don't need to type in the su password everytime.
You can set the suid for that file and change its owner to root:
chmod u+s filename chown root filename
I have many computers I need to connect to from my Linux box. Network browsing works, but is terribly slow, so I want to create some shortcuts, that I can mount with a single mouseclick what I need from a list. First I thought to modify the fstab and put there entries that would allow me to easily mount smb shares as a normal user. E.g.:
//paula/michael /media/smbmounts smbfs noauto,user,credentials=/home/jeltsch/.smbpasswd1 0 0