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Mounting a Windows Share in Samba

I installed Windows on one of the home desktops, so my parents could use it, enabled sharing for "My Documents" folder, then mounted it using smbmount w/o any errors.

However, if I try go in the mounted folder or even view its details, I get the following:

Code:

/bin/ls: cannot access /mnt/samba: Permission denied

camera/  flashdisk/  ipod/  samba

me@tpt60:~$ ls /mnt/samba

/bin/ls: cannot access /mnt/samba: Permission denied

me@tpt60:~$ ls -l /mnt/

/bin/ls: cannot access /mnt/samba: Permission denied

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2007-11-23 23:57 camera/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2007-11-23 23:57 flashdisk/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2007-11-14 23:33 ipod/

?????????? ? ?    ?    ?                ? samba

The mount command I used was pretty simple: smbmount //hpp763n/documents /mnt/samba

I think you should use the Name of the user on the Windows machine.

smbmount -o username=USER,password=PASS ...
if the user has password that is.

I didn't have to do this before and was able to mount these same two machines. I'd sometimes use -o uid=me,gid=users and that would set the permissions of the mount point and all of the files to that user, but if that's left out, it should use root:root