I'm able to connect to the Windows share via both the GUI and command line - the share itself does not require credentials, but the folder I am trying to access is limited by username/pw. When I try to open this folder, Ubuntu returns that I don't have permission to access this folder (which is true) but does not prompt me for credentials.
Running 14.04 LTS.
Windows and Ubuntu have completely different security architectures (Ubuntu being the more secure one) so it just refuses to open the folder (=directory).
The correct way of doing this under Ubuntu is to give permissions on that directory to a group and have you as a member of that group and then you will be able to open this.
As this is a Windows share, you need to read up on the NTFS permissions here and synchronise both Ubuntu and Windows users using the advanced options of the ntfs-3g driver.
Connecting to the server in the format smb://user@sharename prompted me for a domain and password, and I was able to gain access to the share. Hurray!
