I'm running Fedora Core 3 and I wanted to access a remote windows share using samba at bootup automatically without being prompted a username or password. I know by entering in username and password variables in /etc/fstab is the way to do it. The only thing is that I don't want my password to be plain text. So my question is that if there is a way to encrypt the password on my hard drive and have it sent encrypted. I don't know if this will matter or not, but I'm logging in to my linux machine with a username different from the one that will be used to access the remote share. Thanks a lot for the help.

The alternative way is to use a credentials file
In yout mount options add something like "credentials=/etc/samba/mypass" instead of username and password
Then put in your user/pass in /etc/samba/mypass using the following format:
This is a little bit safer then putting passwords directly in /etc/fstab which is usually publicly readable, and of course you'll need to properly protect /etc/samba/mypass file.