samba - Mar 2004 - samba mount setuid problem

Hi
 whenever i try to mount a samba share which is a samba server i get an
 error message that says   "smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct
 mounts(500, 500) smbmnt failed1"

 Anybody there who can help please?

i've consulted sambalist and adviced to visit the foolowing site below

http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/faq/index.html#faq9

and it says;
login as root and change to the directory where this tools resides (/usr/bin 
?) 
do a 'ls -l smbmnt', you'll see something like -rwxr-xr-x 

So when i try to do the ls i get a message that says "COULD NOT FIND THE 
PROGRAM"

What i need is to see the samba shares automatically when i logon as a normal 
user. and anothe thing when i see the shares;  ie. as root ;  the files tha 
are op[ened by OpenOffice .org can't be opened, instead i get a message that
says,  "AN UNRECOVERABLE ERROR HAS OCCURED. ALL MODIFIED FILES HAVE BEEN 
SAVED AND CAN ONLY BE RECOVERED AT PROGRAM RESTART"  and when i restart the
program  and open the file again the error message is displayed.

Anybody with an idea please.

Rgds,
        Segie.