"Failed to mount Windows share" error in Samba

What you want to do is add a "force user" line to that share definition so that the remote user appears to be you

  [share-name]  
  comment =   
  path = /media/some-name  
  read only = No  
  force user = your-user-name  
  guest ok = yes 

Try this.

I ended up using ntfs-config. The automount feature on it solved my problem.