Mounting a Windows share on Linux

I created a share on Windows desktop at work and wanted to access it from my Ubuntu 8.10 virtual machine served up by VMWare Server but ran into a roadblock:

$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=myWindowsLogin,password=myWindowsPassword,uid=prystasj,gid=prystasj,file_mode=000,dir_mode=000 //myWindowsBox/share /share
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //prystash-j.mycompany.org/share,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

$ dmesg | tail
...
[19838.333431] smb_fill_super: missing data argument
...

The answer was to install smbfs.

$ sudo apt-get install smbfs
$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=myWindowsLogin,password=myWindowsPassword,uid=prystasj,gid=prystasj,file_mode=000,dir_mode=000 //myWindowsBox/share /share

Unfortunately, as myself or root, I'm not able to write anything to /share from my Linux host, but I can read just fine.

$ sudo ls -ld /share
d--------- 1 prystasj prystasj 0 2009-02-02 15:41 /share

Will have to investigate more later.