When I came to mounting directories from an XP computer (although any windows this should be applicable) using SAMBA server at startup (similar to "map network drive" in windows) I found that this is relatively cryptic to do, with no warnings or messages to state that the mounting had failed.
Upon googling, I found that this is as for SAMBA to be able to mount using the SMB FS, the mounts need to be added to FSTAB with a lot of UID codes.
ie:
//Server/MountName /MountPoint smbfs credentials=/home/Username/.smbcredentials,uid=Username,gid=users 0 0
For the average user, this seems to be a little haphazard and many will not want to edit FSTAB nor know how to do this
Additionally, the user seems to need to be in the sudoers file.
I propose some sort of SAMBA addon GUI that will allow for automatic updating of FSTAB to this purpose; Perhaps a Nautilus shell script with something similar to the "Map Network Drive..." option in windows, when navigating the Network with Nautilus.
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