First check what shares are available for your Windoze Box (in this case it is at 192:168.100.36 with a login of
$ smbclient -L 192.168.100.36 -U
$ mkdir /mnt/
$ mount -t smbfs -o username=
$ ls /mnt/
Mount Window Share under Linux with Samba
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