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Mount a Windows share on Linux

The mount command supports smbfs. Use it. Assuming you want to mount the folder \\server\SharedDocs. You'll need to resolve your Windows \\server name to an IP address. Assuming that \\server resolves to 192.168.2.4.

mkdir SharedDocs
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=Guest //192.168.2.4/SharedDocs SharedDocs

Browse with smbclient

Don't put a trailing slash on the share name!

cmbclient -UGuest //192.168.2.4/SharedDocs

Error

If you get an error something like this:

 smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

Then if probably means you don't have the smbfs module loaded. Under Ubuntu this is pretty easy to fix. Just run:

 sudo apt-get install smbfs