Lucid Lynx and mounting Windows shares using cifs

By default in Lucid it would seem that it is impossible to mount a windows share using the mount.cifs command


This is because the 'set uid bit' is not set.

It can be sorted by the following commands

sudo chmod +s `which mount.cifs`
sudo chmod +s `which umount.cifs`

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