Comment 71 for bug 286828

It did not work for me as a mount parameter.

To recap:

1) When both the client and server were Ubuntu 8.04 the boot-time CIFS mounts on the client "just worked". See my post above for fstab entries.

2) Upgraded client to 8.10, boot-time CIFS mounts stopped working, although can still get to the shares using the Places|Connect to Server... menu. Not as convenient and not as accessible by scripts however.

3) Upgraded server to 8.10 as well, boot-time CIFS mounts still don't work, even with the nodfs and nounix mount options.