automount xserver volume on red hat linux r/w

i need to automount a share volume from my xserver on my linux server. my goal is to get all the “real” data that needs to be backed up and maintaind to keep the auditors happy when they do there quarterly sarbanse oxley documentation. all on the same raid.

so far i can always mount the share as nfs while logged in as root, but a non root user of the linux accounting software cannot access the data unless its mounted on the linux box.

i CAN smb mount [nautlis] a share from the windows 2003 server but i cannot smb mount a share from the xserver.

my work around up to now is i manually run a script each day at 6am that tars up all the files and mounts the nfs share as root and copies it over. then each night that share is written off to a offsite drive by retrospect.

thre must be some obvious solution.

im just blind to it

any help would be appreciated.

thanks, tim olson