cifs needs a kernel driver which we don't seem to have. What we
do have is the fuse driver. I've just been playing with fusesmb and have got it working. I'll try to write up a guide in the next day or two when I get some time, but very roughly I followed the guide here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FuseSmb (I also had to do a "sudo chgrp fuse /dev/fuse")
Also the scanning for shares doesn't work for me, I needed to manually create a fusesmb.cache.
Anyway, I'll try to do a guide soon.