I'm not sure I understand the question. so I'll give two answers.
you have a linux server and a MAC client.
you should be able to connect to the device as normal, but make sure that you specify that the SMB protocol is used not the Mac protocol (I forget what that is now)
answer 2, you have a Mac server and a linux client.
either make sure that SMB file sharing is enabled on the Mac server, (not just the default apple share protocol), or install a client on the client that understand the apple share protocol.