mounting Samba shares using the mount command

smbclient is all well and good, but limited
mount command treats smb/cifs shares much like NFS shares
mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /localdir -o username=someuser
-t cifs lets mount know it's dealing with an SMB/CIFS share
//servername/sharename is the same server/share name that we\'d use with smbclient
/localdir is the mountpoint for the share
finally, -o username=someuser specifies that we must authenticate as someuser
similar entries can also be put in /etc/fstab -- if a password is required, be sure to specify it, or your system may not boot properly