After doing a lot of searching in the archive, I discovered that someone else had the same problem over a year ago. Here are the workarounds that he posted:
<paste> For comparison/archive purposes, here's an /etc/fstab entry which works as expected after boot but not before: //w2kbox/share /mnt/thing smbfs guest,ro 0 0 I have come up with 2 workarounds for the problem inspired by your response. Workaround #1: -------------- //w2kbox/share /mnt/thing smbfs username=guest,guest,ro 0 0 Workaround#2: ------------- //w2kbox/share /mnt/thing smbfs username=guest,password=,ro 0 0 I noticed that it is a little inconsistent with regard to tolerance of presence/absence quotes in the argument list (actually it seems to accept anything but username not quoted & password quoted), but that's not a big deal. </paste> I tried workaround #1, and found it to work perfectly. My mounts now come up at boot time. James, thanks for the pointer to autofs -> I'm still kind of a newbie... I tend to learn things as I need them. Can you (or someone else) give a brief explanation as to why I would want to use autofs instead of putting auto in the fstab? Not because I'm challenging it, I just would like to know. Thanks, Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba