Smbmount

Forgive me what is probably a simple question I should be able to sort out myself. However, in my defense I have read the man pages and failed. I want to mount a shared directory on my laptop from my new Linux box running SuSE 7.0. When I try: mount -t smbfs -o password=whatever //netbios/share /mountdir I get the error about only root being allowed to do this. I am familiar with this problem on a previous Mandrake 7.2 system and I solved it by making smbmount a suid prog. That doesn't seem to work here - same error message. Suggestions please. Mark