Lots of information on the internet about mounting network drives and all the mechanisms of adding to fstab etc.

I prefer to use the gigolo helper which will check every 60 seconds when a drive is available (configurable) and mount it.

sudo apt-get install gigolo

Nautalis (the file manager) will mount drives using its gvfs-mount command.

e.g.

gvfs-mount smb://<server>/<share name>

This mounts the file system in the ~/.gvfs/ sub directory. Took me ages to find that one.