How to access / mount Windows shares from Linux: "Many times it required Linux users to access some share folder from Linux system, this can be achieve using mount command with CIFS.
The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later.
Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default. "