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Here is what seems to have fixed it, maybe someone else can give a better explanation...

If the shared network folder (in my case a Vista share) does not have "Guest" as one of the "people to...

Any ideas why the mounting creds don't match what I'm putting in the fstab mount line?

Using these settings, I get...
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root
for all files and folders after I "sudo mount -a".
I'm not sure what the auto, noauto does.
I also tried cifs and smbfs.

I've seen quite a few postings about how to mount samba shares in fstab, but I just can't seem to get the perms to anything other than rwx-r__-r__ root:root

I would like them to be something else...