> I dont have SAMBA as a option, its cifs. Two different things and thats why
> I believe its not working. SMB protocol and cifs are two different things.

Not quite true. CIFS is a superset of SMB (which makes SMB a subset of CIFS). This means that in theory (i.e. if correctly implemented), the entire SMB protocol should be included in any CIFS implementation. So connecting with an SMB client to a CIFS server *should* work. In real life however, we know that there can even be compatibility issues between different SMB implementations.

"Microsoft launched an initiative in 1996 to rename SMB to Common Internet File System (CIFS), and added more features, including support for symbolic links, hard links, larger file sizes, and an initial attempt at supporting direct connections over TCP port 445 without requiring NetBIOS as a transport (a largely experimental effort that required further refinement)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block#History