OK. I'm down on my knees. Begging.

Please, someone compile/package smbfs (and/or smbclient and/or samba) for OS2008! I want some more useful samba tools. I found "mount.cifs" to be extremely helpful in tracking down problems, because I could set a verbosity level that would control the error messages. The samba tools that come included in OS2008 are worse than useless. They're very nearly useless but they're useful enough for many people so they stop progress of really useful tools.