[tad1214]

Hmm.... I don't think its an issue with the samba server as when I use Konqueror it works just fine (via smb:// rather than /mnt/Music).

changed my fstab to this

//tdonnelly@otter/music      /mnt/Music        smbfs   rw,-N -g 0 -u 1001

I also tried

//tdonnelly@otter/music      /mnt/Music        smbfs   rw,-N, -g 0, -u 1001

and If I do the following:

Barracuda# ll /mnt/
total 22
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16384 Dec 31  1969 Music

so that would tell me that the user is not being applied.