Help required!!!! Mounting a network drive at Boot up
 

Hello.
I have a file server running Ubuntu and a workstation dual booting with XP Pro and Ubuntu.
With XP i have mapped the network drives & and can read/write no worries what so ever. Easy...
With Ubuntu I have added the mount info into my fstab file........but when ever I boot into Ubuntu none of my icons appear, it does not mount the network drive and after about 3 minutes Ubuntu slows down to the point where I have to hit the reset button.
Now if I start ubuntu, edit the fstab file and comment out the network drive line and then save/restart the computer starts Ubuntu sweet as no worries.
It runs fine.
I then edit the fstab file, uncomment the network drive entry, save and then go:
sudo mount -a
it mounts the network drive and every thing runs mint as...... untill I have to restart where I have to do the above process again.
I can't see why it fails on bootup but then runs fine if you manually mount it after boot.
Below is my fstab contents:
Please Help!!!

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/WindowsDrv ntfs umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/WindowsApps ntfs umask=0222 0 0
//192.168.1.2/ServerStorage /mnt/networkdrive smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dmask=777,fmask=777 0 0

Try this(from mount man page):
and see what happens....

Try this(from mount man page):
and see what happens....

edit: eg:
edit2: don't know how I posted 2 times times

So if I make it look like this....

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/WindowsDrv ntfs umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/WindowsApps ntfs umask=0222 0 0
//192.168.1.2/ServerStorage /mnt/networkdrive smbfs _netdev credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dmask=777,fmask=777 0 0

It will not mount the network drive untill the network has been established??
Wicked I'll give it a go when I get home.

I get an error in that line when I put _netdev in there.
Where abouts inthe line am I supposed to put it?

hmm, I thought that would work, what's the error exactly? it may be that you need all the fields filled in (see man fstab) or that the credentials field _is_ the options field ie. put "_netdev" at the end of the credentials field.... just a guess really!

edit: yeah, thinking about it, the "credentials" field is the first option, the final fields (the two zeros on the end) are the fs check options for the line above. So, try:
edit2: it doesn't show very clearly but the last options read:

credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dmask=777,fmask=777,_netdev 0 0

ok.