[Sussex] Mounting remote disks

[Brendan Whelan]

I use cifs to mount a remote drive at a client's site. Currently, the 
mount is part of a cron job and I would like to reduce the system 
overhead of repeated unmount/mount commands. Could I simply add a line 
in fstab? Periodically, the remote drive will probably become 
inaccessible because of network glitches or reboots of that system. Will 
fstab take care of the remount when the remote drive becomes accessible 
again? Do I need to include "auto"? If I don't get the new line right 
first time in fstab then presumable the current lines will continue to work?
Thanks, Brendan