fstab and mounting filesystems in 12.04

[Colin Law]

On 30 July 2012 21:50, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have a fstab entry in 12.04 LTS
>
> ip-address:/filename    mountpoint    nfs noauto,users,rw,hard,intr
>
> Having this entry in the previous LTS version would allow any user to mount
> the network file system, however when a user tries to mount the file system
> with 12.04 they receive an error message telling them they must be root to
> mount the file system.
> I checked the fstab man pages and it looked like users should be user so I
> changed this and rebooted but a regular user still can't mount the file
> system. Does anyone know what I need to change to get this working with
> 12.04. I really would like normal users to be able to mount and umount the
> nfs file systems.

What is the command the user is using to mount the fs, and exactly
what is the error message?  Ideally copy/paste from terminal.

Colin

>
>        Thank you
>          Linda
>
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