unable to connect to windows share

[watchdawg]

I have installed a very minimal debian system, and need to connect to a windows share. I keep getting an error: "Cannot display location '<path>'. The default action does not support this protocol."

My guess is that I need an important package to allow the action. I have installed samba samba-common smbclient smbfs smbnetfs but none of that has made a difference.

I have also tried from a shell:
mount -t //remotehost/share /mnt/mountpoint -o username=domain\username,password=password

and I am given: mount error 13: permission denied

I have exhausted every idea I can google. Since permission is denied, is there some kind of authentication package I need to communicate with my windows domain? I would have thought the domain\username would be sufficient, but with my limited knowledge of linux in general I could easily be wrong about that...

Any ideas would at least give me something else to try...

[coopstah13]

try using a forward slash instead of a back slash with the domain and username, also try using smbclient to connect on command line using -W parameter to specify the domain

[watchdawg]

Where would I put that switch (-W) within the command? Is this instead of the -t switch?

[watchdawg]

I decided to create a share on a different Win machine. I also noticed my syntax was a little off (left out 'smbfs').... Still can't connect to the w2k3 server, but I can mount the other share on the other machine. I type 'mount' and see that it is mounted. So now how do I browse the files on this newly mounted directory? I thought I could cd to the correct path and ls to see files, but I see nothing there.... Am I still stuck in a Windows mind-set or is this the correct procedure?

[watchdawg]

I'm an idiot! There was nothing in the share... that's why I couldn't see anything, there was nothing there! When I realized the share was empty, I put something in it and I can browse the files just fine...

thank you for your help! I'm sure i will return soon enough with more issues!