...access windows shared folders from a Linux machine on an Active Directory domain?

I've started looking at linux in the past few days and for the first few experiences I think I'm doing rather ok so far, I'm making my tests in virtual machines, installing and working around things.

But the one thing that drives me insane is that I can't make the thing show the shared folders on other PC's of the network. I'm trying Fedora 9 as advised by a coworker, and it's pretty much ok, I do everything in graphical environment whish is great for someone who never messed with linux.

I managed to install Samba, winbind, configure dhcp, and all that. After much struggling the best I obtained was seeing the windows PCs on the network, but not the shares that each had. All of them appeared empty.

I searched around the net and all I find is tutorials several pages long to integrate with the Active Directory, with loads of command-line stuff and editing system files and things I don't even know what they do.


Is there no easy way to get the samba thing to work and show me the windows shares on the rest of the network?