Ok -heres an update as it may help others. I have successfully, finally, mapped my n900 to my readynas. Key issue was cifs not starting at bootup. So got it starting with: depmod -a Code: echo start on startup > /etc/event.d/cifs echo exec modprobe cifs >> /etc/event.d/cifsbefault At this point I created a folder called "NAS" in /media I have then created a scripts folder in /root/scripts as I was getting permission issues where else I put it. In the script I have #!/bin/sh set -x #mount NAS mount -tcifs //xxxxxxxxx/media /media/NAS -ouser=xxxxxxxx,pass=xxxxxxx,ip=xxxxxx #Transfer podcasts rsync -r -t -o --ignore-existing --remove-sent-files /media/NAS/Music/podcasts /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Podcasts/ #transfer Music rsync -r -t -o --delete --ignore-existing /media/NAS/Music/Music/ /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Music/ I then placed this line in cron.d. Not sure its the right one but believe it is: 0 21 * * * /root/scripts/syncfiles.sh