Adding persistant access to smb share hosted elsewhere

1. sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
2. As root, create mount point directory in /mnt, e.g. /mnt/elsewhere/share
3. add following tab delimited single line to end of /etc/fstab

//elsewhere/share    /mnt/elsewhere/share    cifs    credentials=/home/user/.creds,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

4. (optional) add following options to overlay with local ownerships and permissions
uid=john,gid=users,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755
5. Create file /home/user/.creds similar to following

username=johnlewis
password=KnowinglyOverSold

6. chmod 600 /home/user/.creds
7. If RPi, do 'sudo raspi-config' and make sure 'wait for network' is enabled for boot.
8. If no contents found at /mnt/elsewhere/share then do 'sudo mount -a' and diagnose issue.... Does 'elsewhere' resolve to an IP address?