Hello,

Same for davfs mounting over /etc/fstab line:

https://webdav.smartdrive.web.de/ /mnt/webde davfs auto,_netdev,noexec,user,uid=uname,gid=users 0 0

Regards, CisBug

Am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2021, 17:09:26 CET schrieb Christian Mahr:

> Hi

>

> I see the same issue on a CIFS mount that are specified as "user" in

> fstab while being invoked as root. If a normal user mounts or "sudo -u

> <user> mount  ..." is called, it works .

>

> with "mount -v .." you can see that mount does generate the symfollow

> option passed to mount.cifs while it does not when called as normal user

> ...

>

> is this intended behaviour?  mount from 2.35.1 does NOT do that.

>

> --> At least I would suspect a version mismatch between cifs-utils on

> one side and libmount1/util-linux on the other side - as mount.cifs does

> not even ignore the symfollow/nosymfollow option

>

> BR Christian

>

> Am 04.02.21 um 08:21 schrieb Peter Snauwaert:

> > Hi,

> >

> > Since this update I get following error when cifs mounting via systemd:

> > CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"

> >

> > Installing a previous version of libmount1 resolves the issue.

> >

> > Does anyone happen to know if this is a configuration matter or if it

> > would be a bug?

> >

> > thanks,

> > peter

> >