Automount SMB volumes in Leopard (autofs)

Can someone give a brief example on how to automount SMB volumes in Leopard using the new autofs automounter? I have heard that /etc/fstab is no longer support in 10.5, correct? I ned the mounts to show up in the Finder. I dont care if the mount point is /Servers or not as long as I can see the volumes in Finder.
Im a tad confused. According to automount, /etc/fstab is still available, but doesnt exist.
Any suggestions?

Thanks VK
I currently push out all my SMB volumes to my Mac desktops via MCX and Open Directory. MCX basically sets the SMB volumes as Login Items as you suggested (but of course it automounts then for all my users based on computer and user/group policies which is great for centrally manging hundreds of computers). Example: users in the "Managers" group get a MCX login item for the "Managers" SMB volume, so they mount the "Mangers" share when they log into their Macs. If they are off the LAN/domain, then the Finder displays an error after x minutes attempting to connect. This works fine, but it gets clunky for users with laptops. When the laptop users aren't on the network (i.e.; on the road, etc) they get Finder errors when the login items fail ("the login item cant be found"). I cant figure out a way to suppress the Finder errors for the laptop users so my next workaround is to figure out a better way to dynamically mount the volumes and avoid the Finder from throwing login item errors that annoy my users.
Id love to figure out a way to tie autofs and OD together so that the Macs will mount the proper SMB volumes by simply reading OD groups and mounting the volumes as needed. Example: Users in the "Managers" group automount the "Managers" SMB share at login (if the domain can be reached and the Mac is on the LAN). Likewise, members in the IT group will automount the "IT Dept" SMB share at login , etc. This assumes the users have the proper memberships and permissions and that the Macs are able to query DS and find the SMB server etc.
Any ideas?

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