Unable to mount a network share drive in mac os 10.7 when logged in as root

I enabled the root account by entering sudo passwd root in the terminal window. Once the account was enabled successfully, I logged out from my admin account and logged in as root. I then attempted to mount a network share running on an Xserve and a Windows share but was unable to. I logged out as root and logged back in using my admin account and I was then able to mount both shares successfully.
Is there a new Lion security feature that prevents the root account from mounting network shares? If so how can I get around it?
Thanks for your help.

I had the same problem. While logged in as root, I can't use an alias or Cmd+K to connect to a server, but it works fine as any other user. I tried the link above and after reading the mount_afp man page, it describes two steps needed to mount a server. Here's what I had to put in Terminal to mount a share called Installers:
The root account does not seem to be getting past the first step when using Cmd+K or an alias to a network share, although this worked in previous versions of OSX.
This problem was not fixed in 10.7.1

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I have a new laptop, the 13" rMBP. I installed Steam and wanted to use the network share on my server to store the game files. Everything went OK. I closed Steam, disconnected the share and shutdown my laptop. When I opened my laptop later on at work, it started to try and mount the network share.It keeps on going it. I removed the Steam app and all files related to Steam that I could find. I've looked at fstab, auto_home, auto_master and a large list of other files and directories and I *still* cannot find the offending file that's auto-mounting the share. It's really frustrating.
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Last edited by battlepanic (2012-08-15 19:28:05)

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[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [pata]
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[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
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[2012-06-16 13:10] ==> Creating xz initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
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[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [pata]
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[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-06-16 13:10] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
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[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded virtualbox-modules (4.1.16-1 -> 4.1.16-2)
[2012-06-16 13:11] upgraded xine-ui (0.99.6-5 -> 0.99.7-1)
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[2012-06-16 13:12] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-06-16 13:12] synchronizing package lists
[2012-06-16 13:12] starting full system upgrade
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-freetype2 (2.4.9-1 -> 2.4.10-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-gnutls (3.0.19-1 -> 3.0.20-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-krb5 (1.10.1-2 -> 1.10.2-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-libpng (1.5.10-2 -> 1.5.11-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-libx11 (1.4.99.902-1 -> 1.5.0-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (295.53-1 -> 295.59-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-sqlite3 (3.7.11-1 -> 3.7.13-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-util-linux (2.21.1-1 -> 2.21.2-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded lib32-xcb-util (0.3.8-1 -> 0.3.9-1)
[2012-06-16 13:13] upgraded wine (1.5.5-1 -> 1.5.6-1)
Currently returning to the old fstab entry once again gives the initial error code about the security mechanism being upgraded in kernal release x.x (it always seemed to change with each kernel change) though the shares seem to mount just fine. I've looked through the wiki, man pages on die.net and googled everything I can think of and I find a lot pages mentioning ntlmv errors with no solutions, many telling me that ntlmv and ntlmv2 are mount options, but nothing that gives me any indication on why I might be getting this error or how to go about looking for a solution.
I've looked through the pacman logs on both my desktop and my file server that I'm connecting to in an effort to determine what might have changed and I found that:
the smbclient had been upgraded on both machines so I tried downgrading back to version 3.6.5-2 but there was no change when rebooting.
I also found cifs-utils had been upgraded on the file server. So I downgraded that as well to the previous version (5.4-1), rebooted both machines and I'm still getting the same invalid arguement error.
I've now gone back and upgraded to the most recent versions of the downgraded packages on each machine but I'm at a loss as to what my next steps should be. Where do I go from here to track this down and determine if this is a bug or configuration error. Is there a cleaner way of mounting these shares that I should be using instead of fstab?
Thank you.

I had the same issue. After upgrading kernel to 3.4.5 today the cifs share mounted with original fstab settings. I believe it was caused by this bug:
kernel changelog wrote: The double delimiter check that allows a comma in the password parsing code is
unconditional. We set "tmp_end" to the end of the string and we continue to
check for double delimiter. In the case where the password doesn't contain a
comma we end up setting tmp_end to NULL and eventually setting "options" to
"end". This results in the premature termination of the options string and hence
the values of UNCip and UNC are being set to NULL. This results in mount failure
with "Connecting to DFS root not implemented yet" error.

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Hi,
I've got two Macs on a home network. One has several Firewire drives. Over the network I can see the that Mac and it's drives from my first Mac. Is there a way Automator can automatically mount one of those Firewire drives on my first Mac every morning so I can see it on my Desktop? I'm new to Automator and am still trying to figure out how to create a script for this. Thanks!!!

OK, ignore the above!
I found out how to mount a remote network drive and then schedule that action in iCal (first create a remote drive alias on your Desktop, then use 'get specific finder items' and 'open finder items' in Automator, then save the action script as a iCal plugin). Yeah!
Next step, now I just have to figure out how to unmount the drive when I'm done with it...

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