In order to mount a shared network folder in OS X, in general you first open a Finder window, where you will see a list of systems that are broadcasting network services, and upon clicking them you can provide authentication information to connect and mount their available shares.
When you mount a shared folder in this manner, the system uses a global mount point (within the hidden /Volumes directory at the root of the boot drive) to access the shared folder. This mount point can be seen by selecting Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and then typing in "/Volumes" to reveal the hidden Volumes directory. In here you should see internal hard-drive volumes such as those for your OS X installation and perhaps Boot Camp, and any other mounted volumes on locally attached drives (i.e., those on USB or FireWire drives).
The use of this mount point is convenient, but it does have one potential drawback in that mounted shares will at least be visible if not readable to any account on the system. Therefore, if you have two users logged into a system and you mount a network share in your account, then the share will show as being mounted in the second account. Luckily most permissions setups prevent the second user from accessing the share simultaneously, but despite this, the user can unmount the share from the system.
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