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I own a LaCie Big Disk Network, a simple home NAS server. It has a hard drive, embedded controller and is small and quiet enough to fit anywhere. Mine lives under the sofa. It can be accessed by FTP or by a WIndows share. I usually transfer photos and data to and from the disk via FTP, but having a Windows share is easier, let's face it. Gnome can connect to the drive using a nice interface, asking for a user and password, but I needed something more basic, an entry in the fstab file for my monitor-less server.

In order to mount the drive from the command line, try this:

mount -t cifs -o user=<username>,pass=<password>,uid=<uid> //192.168.0.1/share /mnt/nas

This will allow you to mount the drive under the specified folder, but also to give the read/write rights to UID <uid>, something that had been a problem for me. With this, the specified user can freely access the system, make files, create folders and run all of my backup scripts.