How to mount a CIFS file system in fstab?[SOLVED]

I want a CIFS share to be auto mounted on linux startup.
If I add a line to /etc/rc.local, it works well:
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.10/alien /home/alien -o user=alien,passowrd=alien,uid=1000,gid=1000
But, if I append a line to /etc/fstab, it doesn't work:
//192.168.0.10/alien /home/alien cifs _netdev,users,user=alien,passowrd=alien,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
I think may be fstab is before network available. But I am not sure, since I notice some other
linux system has NFS entry in fstab and works well.
Any ideas?
Last edited by vistastar (2011-12-23 11:00:29)

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