smbmount in local.start fails on boot but works from fstab

[mrconover]

I would really like to mount an smb share from local.start instead of fstab. The problem is that inside of local.start I get access denied errors upon boot. If I run the same command from the prompt it works fine.

smbmount //server/share /mnt/where -o password=xxx username=xxx

This problem seems to be universal on the net but I cannot locate a solution. I will be rolling gentoo out to 1450 different computers. Most of these computers reside on different networks with different computer names. If I use local.start to mount my smbshares I can easily set an environment variable for each of the different computer names. I don't want to rewrite fstab each time the computer boots unless I have to. It would be nice to leave that alone. What is the difference between running this command from local.start and running it from the command prompt? Is it a permissions issue? Any suggestions.

[moocha]

Well, could you perhaps post the actual error so we can see what the problem is instead of making blind guesses?
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[mrconover]

the actual error message was Access Denied. It turned out to be an issue with smbmount. If I did the exact same arguments with mount -t smbfs then it work flawlessly. Now I know.