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cruz: try chown cruz:users /mnt/share, and chmod g+rx /mnt/share
everyone in the users group *should* be able to access the share regardless of who mounted it (though I think all activity will be logged as if by the user who did the mount, since the system will use that username and password). Add +w permission if that's appropriate.
peacedog - in the interests of learning and living, you might like to know there's a typo in your signature (your instead of you're)
Ah, I misunderstood - I thought you meant they all needed access to it, not that they all needed to be able to mount it.
From the smbmnt man page:
A setuid smbmnt will only allow mounts on directories owned by the user, and that the user has write permission on.
(and of course, a non-suid smbmnt can only be run by root).
You can get around this by giving the users group write access to /mnt, and making a script that creates the directory and mounts the share via smbmount, and another that removes the directory after smbumount. It's a bit of a pain, and you have to retrain your users to run your script instead of mount <dir>, but it will work.
Another option would be to set up a root cron job that checks the status every <x> minutes and reconnects if necessary.
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