Comment 3 for bug 453169

I think this would be quite useful. At the moment I just use fstab to mount a samba share but it would be nice if Back In Time could mount shares itself when needed. My samba share is on another Linux machine so hard links aren't a problem. I think perhaps support for file systems that don't support hard links should be a separate feature request to this one.

Would the best way to implement this be to temporarily mount the samba share using mount.cifs? On Ubuntu suid is set to root so regular users can mount samba shares. Is this the case in other distros or is there a better way for users to mount samba shares? Or can the .deb/.rpm make sure suid of mount.cifs is set to root?