I have found many threads on these forums dealing with Samba shares, but many are from years ago, and things may well have changed. What I wanted to do was mount Samba/CIFS shares at boot time without having to enter a password. I saw some messages saying you needed a password in /etc/nsmb.conf. I've just noticed that '-N' is available to suppress password. The man pages mount_smbfs(8) mention this. They also mention how to mount Samba shares at boot time via fstab
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me.
It is also possible to use fstab(5) for smbfs mounts (the example below
doesn't prompt for a password):
//guest@samba/public /smb/public smbfs rw,noauto,-N 0 0
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me.