When mounting a Windows share within Linux the noatime option seems to be ignored. I use the following command mount -tsmbfs -ousername=user,noatime //192.168.0.12/eclipse /mnt/tmp Each cat /mnt/tmp/testfile updates the last access time regardless if noatime specified or not. I'm running smbmount v2.0.7 on a old Suse production system, but I could reproduce the same behaviour with a current Ubuntu system using mount.cifs. So I assume I'm doing something wrong?! Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated... Thanks Daniel