Mounting network drive failing when launched with "crontab"...

Greetings!
Here's my problem:
I have a cron job (domain user) that launch a perl script.
Somewhere in the script, I mount a network drive like this: "/sbin/mount_smbfs //user:pw@machine/path"
I get the following error: mount_smbfs: server connection failed: broken pipe.
-If I ssh to the mac, manually execute the Perl script, no problem, the drive is mounted and I am happy. But it constantly fails if I am not logged in.
As a workaround, I tried to make my user automatically logged in when the Mac restart. But what do you know? Not working with my (domain) user. But it works fine with any other local users.
Any ideas?

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I think i've found a clever way to circumvent this problem.
What if i repartition my original hard drive into three. leave one partition for my current stuff, a second partition for the time machine back up, and a third partition as a bootable image of my OSX install DVD. Then I will temporarily disconnect my dvd drive and hook up the SSD and the HDD simultaneously, boot using the OSX install partition, and restore the time machine image to the SSD...
Does anyone see a problem with that? (I realize this isn't the correct forum for that anymore)

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