Your assumption is correct, here is one of my fstab lines: //fs1/storage1 /mnt/storage1 smbfs gid=500,uid=500,username=***,password=*** 0 0 I added _netdev as an option (right before gid=500), I'll have to wait for the next reboot to try this out. On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 20:38, Philip A. Chapman wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:38, djh wrote: > > > (from rc.sysinit:) > > action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs -O no_netdev > > > > It only knows what is a network filesystem because of the _netdev option > in fstab. (see the -O no_netdev command line argument in the above) > That was the point of my previous post. However, I was unaware of the > bug you referenced, so perhaps my assumption that the original poster > did not have _netdev in the options portion of his fstab entry for the > smb mount points was incorrect.