The Crane Has Landed

CIFS is apparently better than SMBFS for mounting shares across a network in Ubuntu.  To set up fstab to automatically mount a share (with read/write access):

1. apt-get install smbfs
2. Create a file called .smbcredentials in the /root folder containing the lines:

   username=[your username]
   password=[your password]

   Then chmod 700 that file so that only root can access it.

3. For each share, add the line:
   //Server/Sharename  /[local mountpoint]  cifs  credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777  0  0

Done.  However, to make sure you don’t get the CIFS VFS: Server not responding error, execute:
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh