Having a big problem auto mounting in fstab some Windows and Samba shares. This is what I have in fstab:

//192.168.1.11/Data /Network/Data smbfs credentials=.winpassword 0 0

Then located in /etc/.winpassword I have the username and password. This is what "boot.msg" has to report:

//192.168.1.11/Data on /Network/Data type smbfs Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
done

Any tips or ideas or help would be greatly appriciated.

UPDATE
This is what I have in fstab now:

//192.168.1.8/NAS1 /Network/NAS1 cifs credentials=/etc/.winpassword 0 0

All the directories exist, and I have no problems mounting them manually, but I am not particularily interested in mounting 12 different individual shares each time I boot up (this is a laptop that switches a lot to Windows XP as well..)

Right now ".winpassword" is RW by root only which is how I believe it should be. Once I get this working I will look into using Samba with the encrypted passwords, but first things first

Try
mount -a
it runs through the whole fstab trying to mount all mentioned filesystems. Does it work for your networked share? I'm asking because it may be that at the time your share is tries, some components are not yest initialized and that's why it fails. The test with mount -a allows to find it out.

I ran mount -a,and this is what I get:

mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

But, this does not happen to all. When I do just "mount" it indicates two of the shares have mounted. Although only one is actually truly mounted, meaning I can see data.

The share that is working is a share from FreeNAS (FreeBSD/Cifs share). The others are a mix of Windows and Linux shares.

If I change from cifs back to smbfs none get mounted, but when I run mount-a all shares are connected. So now I can assume that maybe fstab is starting before other required components are started. How would I go about doing this?