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Map Network drive

First, Need to make sure you have Samba and smbclient and, Cifs-utils. Install them.

create a mount point (if you haven't already)

sudo mkdir /directr/to/moun/to

Mount the volume

sudo mount -t cifs //[addressofshare]/[folderofshare] -o usernam=ofshare /[localdirectorytomountto] 
Exaple:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.3.456/smbshare -o username=bob /mnt/remote

Then, when asked for password, type in password of the share folder that is hosting the share you are trying to access, not your local machine.