[rdiff-backup-users] Samba and archfs / fuse

[Dominic]

After I said that archfs is magical over Samba, I am now struggling to 
get it to work. :-[

The problem I believe is that fuse (upon which archfs depends) does not 
normally allow users, other than the user who created the mount, to 
access its filesystem. This can be overridden by mounting the filesystem 
with the "-oallow_other" mount option, a/c to the fuse FAQ 
(http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FAQ#Why_don.27t_other_users_have_access_to_the_mounted_filesystem.3F), 
but when I try to specify this on the archfs command line it is rejected 
with 'Error: no such option; see man archfs' (which incidentally does 
not exist).

Can anyone tell me how to make an archfs filesystem viewable over samba?

Dominic