There are obviously many parameters that may be required to support various security setings; however the below satisfies my need for a small home network where I am trying to mount a shared directory on my wife’s machine onto my local Ubuntu box.

bash> mount -t cifs -o username=guest,iocharset=utf8 $SMB_SHARE $MNT_POINT

• The cifs filesystem type has replaced the smbfs predecessor
• username=guest can only be used if the shared directory does not require authentication
• Specifying iocharset=utf8 enables unicode characters in file names to render properly. This, of course, assumes both the Windows box and Linux box support the UTF8 encoding.
• The SMB_SHARE shell variable would of a format similar to //192.168.1.5/Share
• The MNT_POINT shell variable corresponds to the mount destination