May I link to my bug report Bug#62607, which addresses some issues I have with cifs. Perhaps some other cifs users can confirm it.
-- 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
