Mounting question

[Bart Silverstrim]

I am trying to do some work with some remote Windows shares and while I 
can easily mount the volume using places->connect to server, it only 
mounts it under the Ubuntu desktop and some GNOME-aware applications. 
If I'm trying to do work with scp or cp from a mount point, the path 
doesn't exist.

What is the best/easiest way to have, for example, \\windowsserver\share 
mounted to \mnt\windows so I can use command line file utilities?