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I am unable to get mount.cifs to respect the user flag passed to mount. The entry in /etc/fstab is

//10.0.1.205/rm /home/robert/remote/rm cifs user,uid=robert,gid=users,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,credentials=/etc/samba/navision,rw,noauto 0 0

but when executing

robert@rm:~/remote> mount rm

I receive

mount error(1): Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
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It looks like mount.cifs has to be setuid to allow normal users to mount shares.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.html

"It is possible to set the mode for mount.cifs to setuid root to allow non-root users to mount shares to directories for which they have write permission."

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That is only for Ubuntu - Debian has changed its behavior back to setting mount.cifs setuid (see here and here) based on upstream. In any case, it was still possible to set it setuid, just not recommended. – James Curbo Feb 22 at 17:31
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Do NOT name a drive volume "rm" under Linux. You are asking for disaster.

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Tell that to my system administrator team. Unix users are created by initials. Guess what my user is :-) – Robert Munteanu Nov 6 '10 at 8:42
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This is the format I think you want to use-it looks like maybe you're using the wrong user deceleration in the command pasted above

//192.168.44.100/share_name /path_to/mount_point cifs username=server_user,password=server_password,_netdev,uid=client_username,gid=users 0 0
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