How to mount windows share as a drive letter?

I have a user that has interlinking excel spreadsheets that are located on a network share. Spreadsheet A on K: links to Spreadsheet B on K:. The links in excel are defined as K:\adirectory\spreadsheetb.xls...
How do I mount a drive on a Mac, such that MacOffice will be able to follow the links?

*"How do I mount a drive on a Mac, such that MacOffice will be able to follow the links?*
Sorry, but you don't, at least not in that sense, as Macs don't follow Windows drive letters.
The user will have to mount the same share on the Mac desktop and link to it via standard SMB links an hope that the links translate server for server and share for share.

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