If worked here - at least for now (I restarted the system a few times without problems).
In my opinion, this work-around also points to a timing issue between starting the ethernet network, starting the samba system and mouting the network shares. Most of most of the above mentioned suggestions influence the point in time when a specific service is started: putting smbfs in /etc/modules: early in the boot process mounting shares in /etc/rc.local: late in the boot process pre-up sleep 5 in /etc/network/interfaces: give something else more time to finish This would also be consistent with my observation that the /etc/modules variant sometimes work and sometimes it doesn't. My guess: This problem is a hick-up in the multi-threaed booting process introduced sometime during the latest Dapper pre-releases. -- auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
