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+.TH SMBMNT 8 "09 Oct 1998" "smbmnt 2.0.0-alpha11"
+.SH NAME
+smbmnt \- mount smb file system
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B smbmnt
+.B mount-point
+[
+.B -u
+.I uid
+] [
+.B -g
+.I gid
+] [
+.B -f
+.I file mode
+] [
+.B -d
+.I dir mode
+]
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B smbmnt 
+is a helper application used by the 
+.BI smbmount (8)
+program to do the actual mounting.
+.B smbmnt
+is meant to be installed setuid root so that normal users can mount
+their smb shares. It checks whether the user has write permissions
+on the mount point and then mounts the directory.
+
+The
+.B smbmnt
+program is normally invoked by a mount command to
+.BI smbmount ,
+and the command line arguments are passed directly to
+.B smbmnt.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.B -u
+.I uid,
+.B -g
+.I gid
+.RS 3
+A Lan Manager server does not tell us anything about the owner of a
+file, but Unix requires that each file have an owner and a group it belongs
+to. With 
+.B -u
+and
+.B -g
+you can tell smbmount which id's it should assign to the files in the
+mounted directory.
+
+The defaults for these values are the current uid and gid.
+.RE
+
+.B -f
+.I file mode,
+.B -d
+.I dir mode
+.RS 3
+Like 
+.B -u
+and
+.B -g,
+these options are also used to bridge differences in concepts between
+Lan Manager and Unix. Lan Manager does not know anything about file
+permissions, so
+.B smbmnt
+must be told which permissions it should assign to the mounted files
+and directories.
+
+The values must be given as octal numbers. The default values are taken
+from the current umask, where the file mode is the current umask,
+and the dir mode adds execute permissions where the file mode gives
+read permissions.
+
+Note that these permissions can differ from the rights the server
+gives to us. If you do not have write permissions on the server,
+you should choose a file mode that matches your actual permissions.
+This certainly cannot override the restrictions imposed by the server.
+
+In addition to specifying the file mode, the
+.B -f
+argument can be used to specify certain bug-fix workarounds.
+This allows bug fixes to be enabled on a per mount-point basis,
+rather than being compiled into the kernel.
+The required bug fixes are specified by prepending an (octal) value
+to the file mode.
+For information on the available bug workarounds, refer to the
+.B smbfs.txt
+file in the Linux kernel Documentation directory. 
+.RE
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.B smbmount(8)
+