Automount with curlftpfs

And try to kill automount first before restarting autofs.

If you can't kill it, then a reboot is a must. Try to "kill -15 5885" and not "-9", where 5885 is the autmount pid as per above.

There's a bit of confusion here. mount reads /etc/fstab, and is used for things that should be mounted when the system boots.

automount reads /etc/auto_master, and is used to mount things only when the directory is used, and not before. It's typically used for things like NFS home directories, which should only be mounted when the user actually needs them. You can do that, too, but /etc/fstab is not where to do it.

If you just want to have your smb share mounted when the machine starts up, all you need is what you already have in /etc/fstab, with a couple of gotchas that you should be aware of.

1. use the soft option - otherwise, if you're not networked, the mount will hang and prevent your system from booting correctly
2. it looks like you're connecting without credentials. If you actually do need credentials in the fstab entry, be careful, since /etc/fstab is usually readable by anyone on the system, so your username and password used for the smb system will be exposed. There are ways around that by editing ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf