* An ongoing debate between Nicholas Boel and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 NB> Not sure if this will help, but I'll take a stab at it. At one time I
 NB> had a Seagate external backup drive setup in fstab, and the only way I
 NB> could get it to work was with sec=lanman. Give that a try. If it does

Nope, but that gave me an idea (g) I changed the servername (wowmach4) to the
actual IP address (reserved) and they came right up, thanks! {chuckle}

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