Samba fstab

From: Adam T. Gautier (adam_gautier_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/23/04

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    I am trying to add a line /etc/fstab that is a Samba mount of a windows
    share.

    /etc/fstab
    ...
    //192.168.2.101/movies /mnt/movies smbfs
    noauto,user,user,username=guest,password=password 0 0
    ...
    (All on one line, can't help the line wrap in email)

    sudo mount /mnt/movies works fine but when I right click in the Gnome
    desktop or try to do the mount as a regular user I get:

    smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
    smbmnt failed: 1

    How do I fix this so I can do smb mounts as a user? Would't setuid be a
    big security hole? I can mount a cdrom as a user no problem, does this
    us setuid?

    Thanks 

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