Comment 12 for bug 231806

Just passing by to confirm that the cifs + file method works fine.

Only make sure that the samba share is mounted world readable (otherwise apt sandbox will complain).

And use one single slash on the file: line, for instance:

    deb file:/smb/someserver/deb path/to/repo/

This would assumes that your *.deb files are available on /smb/someserver/deb/path/to/repo/ from the local machine perspecitve.

I find this is the best method to access a repo on a file server, since you likely don't want to mess up the apt config with how you access the samba shares (user name, password, etc).