Sorry that did not work. I will as you suggest, mount from the command line specifying the credentials directly with the user= password= options until you figure out what username and password combination is required and then modify the sambapasswords file accordingly, instead I will refer to the .creds file. The .creds file allows for it to connect but the permissions are not perfect so I will setup a cron job. For more information on .creds see below:
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambacifs.html
Hiding the username and password
Any Linux user on the client machine who chooses to view the file fstab can of course read the {username,password} credentials required to be sent to the server to effect the mount. If this is undesirable, you can put the credentials in a hidden file, e.g. ".creds". For additional security you can make the file ".creds" readable only by the owner (rw----). The entry in
fstab then becomes (all on one line):
//192.168.44.100/share /path_to/mount cifs
credentials=/path_to/
.creds,_netdev,uid=client_user,gid=users 0 0
And the contents of ".creds" are two lines, like this:
username=server_user
password=secret