I have the following line in my fstab file:

//ccgateway/shared /mnt/shared smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.ccgateway.guest,fmask=777,dmask=777 0 0

The problem is, when the computer starts, the network doesn't come up quick enough, & mounting the share fails. After I log in, the network is up & if I mount /mnt/shared as root, it works. This is an excerpt from the boot.log

Jul 15 18:00:56 Dad_Linux rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
Jul 15 18:00:57 Dad_Linux mandrake_everytime: Starting netprofile: succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:00 Dad_Linux harddrake: succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:01 Dad_Linux network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:01 Dad_Linux network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:01 Dad_Linux network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
Jul 15 18:01:01 Dad_Linux portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:04 Dad_Linux xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:05 Dad_Linux mount: 1415: Connection to ccgateway failed
Jul 15 18:01:05 Dad_Linux mount: SMB connection failed
Jul 15 18:01:05 Dad_Linux netfs: Mounting SMB filesystems: failed
Jul 15 18:01:05 Dad_Linux netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
Jul 15 18:01:05 Dad_Linux dm: Starting display manager:
Jul 15 18:01:05 Dad_Linux dm: Display manager startup succeeded

How do I figure out why eth0 is not coming up at this point but does later, & how do I delay the automatic mount of smb so I don't have to do it manualy all the time? Thanks for the help.

Hi
I seem to be having the same problem. In my search I have found smbfs is a solution, not sure if it is the only solution. I found a web page that explains smbfs though I haven't read it deeply.

I am looking for a way to get past my Mounting SMB filesystems failure. It is stopping my box from coming up at all now.

Can you help.