Configure A Windows Samba Share To Display At Linux Boot

I was having extreme problems getting a smb drive on a windows server to appear on a linux computer at boot. I could make it go with mount -a but it just wouldn't go with mods to fs tab.

Here is what I did to make it go.

change the firewall settings to "internal" and enable samba.

as root, create /etc/samba/smb.auth and jam in the following:
username=windowsUserName
password=windowsPassword

be sure to chmod 600 so no one can see it.

then, make sure the following directory is present:/mnt/winPCname/winPCdirectory

then, as root, i made this change to /etc/fstab and used cifs instead of smbfs
//winPCname/winPCdirectory /mnt/winPCname/winPCdirectory cifs rw,credentials=/etc/samba/smb.auth 0 0

then test fstab: mount -a
to unmount: umount /mnt/winPCname/winPCdirectory

on one pc, i got it to reboot and show the network drive. but on another, it said "nope" and wouldn't display, so i got medieval on it and added the following line to /etc/init.d/boot.local
/etc/init.d/smbfs start

shazam! it worked on boot!
have a nice day. jesus saves.