Windows network drive from PHP running on a linux environment

Question

I have to check something if it works.

We have limited access to a Debian server via ssh. We have a PHP intranet solution running on this server, so we can run PHP scripts. We got the following scenario:

A windows network drive given: \\IP\folder$

We have to read this windows network drive from PHP under linux. I never did such thing.

We have no any rights to mount anything on the server. This drive may or may not accessable from the linux machine, I don't know. (I guess it's accessable, due to the scenario).

We didn't receive any user&pass for the drive, so I guess we don't need it.

The question is: is it possible to do this in this situation if everything was set up correctly on the customer side? If yes, how?

We can ask more information and configuration changes if we need it, but I'm wondering if we can do this now, because it's interesting.

Thanks in advance,

negra