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@@ -589,6 +589,14 @@ read and used as the password.
<title>NOTES</title>
<para>This command may be used only by root, unless installed setuid, in which case the noeexec and nosuid mount flags are enabled. When installed as a setuid program, the program follows the conventions set forth by the mount program for user mounts.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honour client-side
+ configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those
+ client tools, <emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> ignores smb.conf
+ completely.
+ </para>
+
</refsect1>
<refsect1>