Mounting a Windows Shared Folder with Write Permissions

Use the following commands

sudo mount.cifs //COMPUTER_NAME_OR_IP/FOLDERNAME /PATH/TO/MOUNT/LOCATION/ -o user=USERNAME,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=07‌​77

These were learned from the following two websites:
http://www.howtogeek.com/176471/how-to-share-files-between-windows-and-linux/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/72471/correct-way-of-mounting-a-windows-share