replacing "smbfs" with "cifs" in fstab seemed to help for me. Long waits at boot time went away and the filesystem seems available. Manually mounting the filesystem every boot wasn't an option, because servers are supposed to be available automagically. (Dapper under VMWare)
-- auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44874 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
