i need to backup my zimbra server at work to our windows server for nightly backups. to do so, i followed this thread at ubuntu forums which tells you to do the following:

install the smbfs package installed:

sudo apt-get install smbfs

then create the mount point:

sudo mkdir /mnt/winshare

then we add the following line to the /etc/fstab file (changing //winserver/share to suite your setup):

//winserver/share    /mnt/winshare    cifs    exec,credentials=/etc/cifspw    0    0

now create the password file we referenced in fstab and add the following text (substituting user and pass for the Windows credentials you’re using):

username=user
password=pass

then just set the permissions on the password file and mount the share:

sudo chmod 600 /etc/cifspw
sudo mount -a

you should be all done

you can now use any method you wish (cp, rsync etc) to copy files from the local machine to the windows share which you’ll now find at /mnt/winshare