network share drives me mad

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Yes, they look very similar when I ping the name vs pinging the IP address.

I wonder if my problem is related to this: 

http://serverfault.com/questions/70762/a...from-fstab

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manp...ifs.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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answered Oct 2 '09 at 14:14

James Curbo
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Not anymore: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cifs-utils/+bug/657900 –  Calmarius Feb 22 '13 at 10:23
 
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 '13 at 17:31


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And perhaps this explains why the setup I was using with Solydxk in the past (debian) does not work for me in this ubuntu environment?

Unfortunately I do not know what it means to "set the mode for mount.cifs to setuid"