Mounting SMB shares without root

[Marc R. Hoffman]

I need to be able to mount SMB shares while not logged in as "root" in Red 
Hat 7. Whenever I try to do this, I get the following error:

smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500)
smbmnt failed: 1
mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=1
Could not umount /home/mhoffman/test: Operation not permitted

Mandrake Linux lets me do this with no problems. How do I set the smbmnt 
attributes for non-root usage?

Thanks in advance...