Easy Windows Share Connecting

Hello forums!
I have recently convinced our "hardware guy" at work to buy a new MacBook for work use. He had been interested in trying out OS X for a while and when the opportunity came up to get one, he jumped at it. I am sorry to say that he is less than thrilled with the level of control that he has over the operating system and is less than flexible in learning new ways of doing things. One of the ways that he is used to connecting to Windows shares is by opening a new Explorer window and just typing "\\NameOfShare\SharedVolume". He knows that he can browse through the network, but REALLY wants a way to quickly and easily open up a share. Does anyone know of any apps out there that will accomplish something similar, possibly even allowing a Windows convert to type "\\NameOfShare\SharedVolume"?
Thanks in advance!
15" PowerBook G4 1.25GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5) 3 years old and still going strong!

From the Finder, choose Go, Connect to Server. In the Server Address: space type in:
smb://NameOfShare/SharedVolume
Note forward slashes, not backslashes. In *nix variants backslash is an escape character. Type in your password, and the share will be mounted on the desktop.

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