[Bug 1216968] [NEW] mount.cifs does not honor 'users' fstab option

[Vladimir Vitkov]

Public bug reported:

I am attempting to allow a roaming client to manually mount as a user a
samba share. but unfortunately mount.cifs (and mount.smbfs) does not
honor the option in fstab.

/etc/fstab:
//stor.lan/storage	/mnt/stor.lan	cifs	users,noauto,guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8	0	0

the users option is supposed to allow manual mounting of filesystems by
the users themselves.

The share in this case is not required to be permanently mounted but on demand (done by the user via a shortcut).
No sudo is not acceptable (at least in our environment)
Yes i am aware of intr and bg options but this is not feasible with our setup.

mount.cifs/mount.smbfs should honor the users option in fstab (or the
handler invoking it should)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: smbfs 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-50.112-generic 2.6.32.61+drm33.26
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-50-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CIFSMounts: Error: command ['mount', '|', 'grep', 'cifs'] failed with exit code 1: mount: only root can do that
Date: Mon Aug 26 18:08:59 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=bg_BG.utf8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaClientRegression: No
SourcePackage: samba

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cifs fstab lucid mount samba smbfs

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