some more info: After hanging on hald, and hanging on entering the desktop, the mount doesn't work.
every time i do ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 or mount /mymount I find following message in my dmesg Jun 13 21:44:17 localhost kernel: [4296366.388000] smb_lookup: find //DISK 1 failed, error=-5 and the mount still doesn't work strangely, //DISK 1 is the name of the share, but I would expect the servername too, complete path would have been //server/DISK 1 regards Tim ** Bug 44722 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
