SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[O. Sinclair]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> David McGlone said the following at 12/05/2007 07:38 PM :
> 
>> Sorry, I had to forward to my laptop to get you my fstab so here ya go:
>>
>> //192.168.2.2/D /media/d cifs 
>> username=myusername,password=mypassword,uid=david,gid=david,auto,rw 0 0
> 
> Getting very close now, thank you very much.
> 
> So I now have:
> 
> //192.168.0.244/C   /hpxp/c  cifs
> defaults,user,guest,uid=n7dr,username=N7DR 0 0
> 
> which works perfectly when I am root (yay!), but as an ordinary user I get:
> 
> [H:~] mount /hpxp/c
> mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not
> installed SUID
> 
> but when I look at mount.sbin, I see:
> 
> [H:~] ls -al /sbin/mount.cifs
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 25240 2007-11-16 14:31 /sbin/mount.cifs
> 
> As I understand it, the "s" in the attribute string means that the file
> *is* installed SUID root.
> 
> So I am not at all sure why I can't mount the filesystem from an ordinary
> account.
> 
I remember I had exactly the same headache. I DID eventually find a 
solution, I think I basically ran a shellscript on startup that did the 
mount and fed the sudo password... I will see if I can find it somewhere.

Sinclair