smbmount and ownership of dir for mounting

[Brenton Judge]

Why can a user only mount on a directory which he owns with smbmount?
Surely write permission should be enough worst case and likely this too
should not be required.  Other mount code allow mounts to occur without
ownership (for example the CD-ROM mounting to /mnt/cdrom when ANY user types
mount /mnt/cdrom without either ownership or write permission).  It seems
inconsistent.  If the problem is in mounting over other people stuff then
surely there should be an exception if it is listed is /etc/fstab

BJ