Major issue trying to network with windows computer via smb

I'm pretty much ready to get rid of osx all together at this point and go to windows 7. I've tried all kinds of tricks for mount/unmounting smb shares, but I still constantly get random lockups...sometimes not even coming out of sleep. Any one else having this many problems with trying to access shares on windows? the worst part is when these crashes occur I can't force terminate any processes only a hard power down and restart fixes it.
any suggestions would be appreciated

That got me thinking. Are you just connecting via the Finder? Maybe try setting up Autofs. I used it with sshfs all the time. Unfortunately, I know little about SMB.
I was looking for a good link and came across this PDF from Apple. I have never seen it before but had done quite a bit of research on autofs. I have to find more of these "Technical White Papers" from Apple.

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