fstab and mounting filesystems in 12.04

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I have a fstab entry in 12.04 LTS
>
> ip-address:/filename    mountpoint    nfs noauto,users,rw,hard,intr
>
> Having this entry in the previous LTS version would allow any user to mount
> the network file system, however when a user tries to mount the file system
> with 12.04 they receive an error message telling them they must be root to
> mount the file system.
> I checked the fstab man pages and it looked like users should be user so I
> changed this and rebooted but a regular user still can't mount the file
> system. Does anyone know what I need to change to get this working with
> 12.04. I really would like normal users to be able to mount and umount the
> nfs file systems.

Check with pkaction whether there's a difference between 10.04 and 12.04.