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i would *VERY* strongly suggest you look at autofs, which mounts the filesystems on access, not on boot. especially with network dependent file systems, when you have network issues, i.e. you trip over a cable, your boxes can often hang trying to read from a drive mapped over a LAN. if you use autofs it'll unmount after periods of inactivity so things like that can't happen either.
auto.master defines which directories are to be managed by autofs, and which file to use to refernce potential mount points within that directory. so *IF* you wanted to access /media/battlestation/F then autofs.master defines the fact that you wish to manage to locations underneath /media/battlestation, yes. so as in the example link i gave you, you'd need an equivalent entry like "F -fstype=smbfs,dmask=etc... ://battlestation/F"
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