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I've got a problem with long-term UNC mounts from my web application cluster (Arch Linux to various Windows versions) timing out so am looking into short-term (on demand) mount/unmount cycles via scripting - the obvious problem is permissions. I really don't want to hand over root/sudo to the web application. Ideas?

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If you define a (CIFS) mount in /etc/fstab with the users option, nobody will need root to mount it.

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I had completely forgotten about that - the only issue is the credentials file, but that's a much easier pill to swallow. – Mel Boyce Aug 20 '12 at 0:38

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