[SOLVED] mounted windows shares from fstab dont stay mounted

i have windows shares mounted through fstab and when i first boot up, they are mounted fine, but after a certain amount of time (not sure how long it takes) they disappear and it hangs thunar (oh yeah, using xfce) and i have to reboot to get them back. running mount -a doesnt bring them back
line from fstab
//charger/share /home/user/Documents cifs rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,credentials=/home/credfile 0 0
daemons line from rc.conf
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng hal network netfs samba @alsa crond)
Last edited by dodgefan (2011-08-03 20:01:44)

thanks anyway, figured it out, installed autofs and setup everything to mount to /media and made links to my home folder

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