<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi guys, I always work on the theory that most problems are caused by the lowest common denominator .... Me! However, this time I am not so sure. There is probably a simple answer to my query but so far it has eluded me. I have added a line to /etc/fstab which originally mounted a couple of shares on my Netgear Duo NAS at bootup. It worked fine for a couple of days and has now stopped working. However, if I run sudo mount -a in terminal the shares mount as expected. It may help solve this if I outline the background to this. I am running 10.04 32bit. I have always been unable to access images which I have stored on the NAS in shared folders from programs such as Picasa, Gwenview or Digikam. I guess that I am not alone with that problem. After a lot of googling I found a 'solution' that was originally published in respect of version 7.10. I will summarise the 'solution'. 1. Install smbfs 2. Create a folder inside /media. In my case /media/NASmedia 3. Create a credentials file in /root. (.cifscredentials) It contains passwords and is protected by the root account. 4. Edit .cifscredentials to contain username-USERNAME and password=PASSWORD. Save and close the file. 5. Edit /etc/fstab and add the following line at the end of the file: <pre>//192.168.1.15/SHARENAME /media/Storage cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=USER,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0</pre> NB. 192.168.1.15 is the IP address of my NAS        SHARENAME is the share name to mount.        USER is my Ubuntu username. The file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 part sets the mounted directory as read/write for all users so long as the SMB username you set in .cifscredentials has read/write access. Once saved, the system would display a drive icon for the mounted share and it was accessible to all programs after running sudo mount -a or upon reboot. Now it only works if I run sudo mount -a after bootup. Any ideas? TIA Bob Giles </body> </html>