Since the mount.cifs split from the Samba package it doesn't allow mounts from non root users anymore (with 'user' option set in fstab). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.put something like this into fstab: //sambaserver/share /home/foo/share cifs user,noauto,workgroup=bar,username=foo,password=foobar 0 0 2. $ mount /home/foo/share Actual Results: mount error 1 = Operation not permitted Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) Expected Results: mounted the share chmod +s /usr/bin/mount.cifs and chmod +s /usr/bin/umount.cifs helps.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186383 ***