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You can mount a Samba share with the following command:

mount -t smbfs -o username=[username],password=[password] //servername/share /mount/point

The -t smbfs denotes a Samba file system type, -o passes the username and password of a user with access to the //servername/share Samba share. This will be mounted on the local system at /mount/point.

To allow normal users to mount their SMB shares smbmnt will need to be installed setuid root. This can be done using the following commands:

chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmnt
chmod +s /usr/bin/smbumount

For further information on this, reference man smbmnt.

A user can then mount and unmount a Samba share they have access to with:

smbmount //server/share /mount/point
smbumount /mount/point

Again, further information can be found through man smbmount.