[doveman2]

Thanks sraue, I understand a bit better now. I thought you were telling me to put the text below /etc/profile IN /etc/profile

Sorry but that doesn't seem to work and the share doesn't get mounted. If it worked it would avoid the problem with the boot halting when the server isn't available but then if it does become available, it still won't mount when going into the library, so I'd have to reboot to get it mounted which isn't ideal. Perhaps there's a way to map a script to mount it to a button on my remote, although of course I'd prefer an automatic method that does this when going into the Library but I realise that might require some changes in XBMC itself.