Mount to a directory that is also an SMB share

[pvacca2]

Hello!

I am working on a project where we have to transfer data from a server by mounting an SMB share. The SMB is created in a VM instance that has a VPN tunnel to the on-prem server. I used this link to set up the smb share (just changed some of the names to something more relevant to me.)

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-and-configure-samba-on-ubuntu-18-04/

When I try to mount GCS to that same directory I get errors.

/bin/fusermount: mount failed: Operation not permitted

I am using the same user account for the mounts and I have done chmod 777 on everything I can think of but I still can't mount it.

Am I missing something? Can you not mount to a directory that is shared via smb?