Mounting your Samba shares locally within your HDA is useful when you are using Greyhole, and want a process '''running within your HDA''' to write or data in any a way work with those files locallythat ends up in a Greyhole-managed share.  The reason is that Greyhole data should '''only be accessed through shares'', not directly onto the local file system, so mounting those shares locally is an easy way to work with Greyhole data safely. For example, if an app like a downloader gets files from the internet and you want those files to be in a Greyhole-managed share, it has to place them into the share, not directly into the operating system, or Greyhole otherwise cannot handle them.  __TOC__