Configuring Debian Etch

apt-get install smbclient smbfs

When asked about the network's Workgroup/Domain Name, enter it. I have opted not to change the smb.conf due to DHCP information; I don't broadcast WINS from my OpenBSD fileserver.

Now, create a mount point for the share to attach to.

mkdir /mnt/share

My system uses a username/password combination to validate access to certain fileshares. To test that the machine can see the shares, you can run this command and take a look at available shares:

smbclient -L ip.of.samba.server

Then, mount the share to the folder manually...

mount -t smbfs -o username=jhellbek,password=******** //ip.of.samba.server/name_of_share /mnt/share

You can also add this to the /etc/fstab.