Mounting Drive in Linux

I’m having some dificulty mounting my drive to a linux machine. I’m able to mount the drive using samba and cifs however the drive is read only. I have tried changing the permissions and the owner with no luck. Owner remains root with read only for all users. Anyone have any input on this? I’m a bit of a linux noob. Thanks.

Check if the links below help. 

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Firmware/Firmware-1-11-144-how-to-re-enable-Linux-NFS-Share/m-p/466392/highlight/true#M2114

http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/My-Book-Live-and-Linux/m-p/102732/highlight/true#M228

If you are a bit of a Linux noob, the MBL has Debian underneath. Enable SSH and do any Linux command as you wish from the cli.