one caveat, however: there is no write access by default. If one wants to have write access and has already connected to the share with Nautilus , unmount or "eject" it. Then, run sudo mount.cifs //10.0.1.1/"My Book" /mnt/tc -o pass=$tr0ngP@55w0rd from the command-line, where 10.0.1.1 is the IP address of the