Reading Windows shares as non-root user

I was able to get some window shares mounted, and was able access them as root, but non-root users did not have any access. The permissions of the files were 0770 and I couldn’t override the permissions despite using the file_mode,dir_mode,uid, and gid options specified in the mount.cifs manpage.

The solution is to use the (undocumented in the 3.0.14a version that Debian Sarge packages) noperm option. This option ignores any client-side permission checks and relies on the server to keep you honest. The documentation for these options have been updated in the trunk version of the mount.cifs manpage.