How to mount a volume on an Ubuntu server in Finder?

I am a newbe in such advanced functions, but I like to find solutions and it is hard for me to give up.
I have a MacBook 13,3 and an Ubuntu server. I have managed to connect to the a USB printer connected to the server. But I have not found out how to mount the server in Finder, so that I can use an external disk connected with USB as a Time Machine disk.
Can anyone help me, and please as simple and basic as possible :-)?

so i'll admit that I haven't done this but it would seem that since Ubuntu includes Samba you could, from 'Finder' click cmd-k and type in smb://[the path to the share]
that said I found this on the web:http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-v olume/
instead of mounting the disk via Samba, it tries to use a more native approach.....that said, this definitely looks more involved.

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    mount /dev/mapper/arch-home /home 
    mount /dev/mapper/arch-boot /boot
    I'm not sure which of the above I need to go with. (Probably just a matter of preference?)
    Then the LVM Guide seems to want me to "Edit [/etc/mkinitcpio.conf] and insert lvm2 between block and filesystems"  but how should I access that file at "/etc"?  I think I'd have to run "pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel"  first  but the LVM guide seems to indicate doing this right after I mount the logical volumes - I probably misunderstand something here.  (I can't find it anyway at this point using either mount method above.)
    The rest I'll do right out of the beginners guide:
    pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
    swapon /dev/mapper/arch-swap   <<<<<  I suspect I need this here before running genfstab to get the entry in the table
    genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
    nano /mnt/etc/fstab
    Then I'll follow the rest of the beginners guide and edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf during the "Create an initial ramdisk environment" step/
    (I actually got to the point in the beginners guide where I should be editing the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf after pacstrap but I could not find it and suspect either I didn't mount correctly or messed up the chroot step.)
    Last edited by hbc2 (2014-07-28 03:48:52)

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