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Originally Posted by pepsimachine15 (Post 3572099)

sometimes this will help, i believe the 1 at the end will tell fstab to retry the mount again later at the end of boot, possibly after your net starts.

From the man page for "fstab":

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      The  sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8)

      program to determine the order in which filesystem checks

      are done at reboot time.  The root filesystem should be

      specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems

      should have a fs_passno of 2.  Filesystems within a drive

      will be checked  sequentially, but filesystems on different

      drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism

      available in the hardware.  If the sixth field is not present

      or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that

      the filesystem does not need to be checked.

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aye, the man page tells the truth. only changing the value to 1 on my system did cause my cifs mounts to mount properly. maybe not the correct way of doing it, but it did work strangely enough

I spent a long time to find the problem: STP - Spanning Tree Protocol.
When a host is attached such as a computer, printer or server the switch port will always go into the forwarding state, albeit after a delay of about 30 seconds while it goes through the listening and learning states.
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