mount me, baby

so i have been trying to permanantly mount my windows network drive so i can get to all my music and pictures and what not and have been having a bitch of a time...

know what i was missing?

installing the right packages.

ugh

so before you do this make sure you install samba, smbclient and smbfs.

and before i tell you what this is.. here is where i learned it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-287167.html and
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html

to temporarily mount the drive do this:
sudo smbmount //MEDIACENTERBOX/External /external -o username=mikeEskew,password=FedExIsSexy

and to add it permanantly, add this line to /etc/fstab
//MEDIACENTERBOX/External /external smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpasswd 0 0

after creating the file /root/.smbpasswd with this information:
# cat /root/.smbpasswd

username=mikeEskew

password=FedExIsSexy

note: there are some security measures you should do when using credentials so make sure to see the second link for details.