I have searched for a solution to my problem, and have only found one short discussion which mentioned it (http://samba.cadcamlab.org/lists/samba/Aug2001/msg00364.html), and I didn't feel it contained a resolution I could use. In a nutshell, I want to mount an win2k share as 'guest' at boot time on a linux web server.[1] It just won't work any way that I've tried it. I can quite easily mount a share as guest any time after boot. I can put the following in /etc/fstab: //2kserver/test /opt/win2k smbfs auto,guest,ro 0 0 #mount -a (or mount -at smbfs) works great. I can also use smbmount or whatever. The only time it doesn't work is if I put it in /etc/init.d/smbfs, which is then called at the appropriate time in the boot process. It produces an ERRnoaccess error (tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) , even though the exact same command works just great from the command line immediately after boot. I got the impression from the one discussion I found that 'guest' mount won't work. Is there a patch for this? Do I have to coordinate with the PC-ians and use some other user and set up credentials & so on? I'd rather not use automount if I can help it. The files will need to be available whenever they are called for via http, so I'd just rather they were mounted at boot up (and I'll write a cron job to check the mount if need be). Any pointers, suggestions will be gratefully received! -sue [1] I have a requirement to allow some windows developers put files that they want served from a linux web site onto a pc running win2000 server. Simply put, I just want to be able to mount one or more win2k shares from this pc, and I want to do it at boot time if possible. I would like to do it as the user 'guest' to avoid all passwords. I don't want to learn about credentials or anything win-centric like that if I can avoid it, and I also hope that 'guest' is a restricted user who can't do much damage if the unthinkable occurs (somebody r00ts the web server - though this probably won't afford any real protection). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com