ncpmount/fstab strangeness

[Brian Stults <bstults@soc.ufl.edu>]

I am trying to create an fstab entry that would allow a specific 
ordinary user to mount and umount an ncp volume.  Here is what I 
currently have:

clas  /mnt/clas  ncp 
user=bstults,uid=1000,passwdfile=/etc/credential/credfile.txt,noauto 0 0

This allows root to mount and umount using "mount /mnt/clas".  However, 
the user with uid=1000 cannot.  I mistakenly tried adding "users" as an 
option, and it had an unintentional consequence.  When I tried mounting 
as root, I was informed that "users" was not an option and would be 
ignored, and the mount proceeded.  What's strange is this also worked 
for the ordinary user.  Now, because of this incorrect option in fstab, 
the user was able to mount the volume.  However, he could not umount the 
volume, and received this error:

umount: /mnt/clas mount disagrees with the fstab

So I have two questions: 1) Why does this wierdness happen; and 2) what 
is the correct fstab entry to allow this user to mount and umount the 
volume?  Perhaps I should mention that the username on the linux system 
is different from the username on the Novell network, the latter of 
which is "bstults" as shown above.  I don't see why this would matter, 
but just in case...

Thanks.
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Brian J. Stults
Department of Sociology
University of Florida
Box 117330
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7330
phone:  (352) 392-0265 x286
fax:    (352) 392-6568
e-mail: bstults@soc.ufl.edu