Mounting smb (cifs) from Ubuntu Linux

Key words: Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, smb, samba, cifs, windows share, command line

Goal: Mount a Windows share from the command line

Platform: Ubuntu 9.10 x64

Solution:

1) Make sure smbfs is installed:

sudo-apt get install smbfs

2) Mount the share with the following syntax:

sudo mount -t cifs //<server>/<share> <local mount point> -o user=<domain>/<username>

Notes:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs