LabVIEW
Protocol SMB
Solved!
You don't need to change the server except that your Windows account must have remote access rights to the directory you want to monitor. If that is not possible the whole SMB protocol is anyhow a red herring. SMB is mainly a file sharing protocol that supports authentication and in order to access the file locations, the authentication has to be configured properly. If you can't get that provided you have no way to access the server through SMB anyways.
Once you have that, you simply configure in your Windows system a file share as is common when accessing remote locations like shared document directories on the company server. Your IT departement should be able to assist you. Then you can write your LabVIEW program on your Windows computer to read the mapped directory.
An alternative is (as James already pointed out), to write a program that runs on your Linux system (either in C or anything you are familiar with or using LabVIEW for Linux) and have it provide you the desired information over your own TCP/IP based protocol. But that is quite possibly even less of an option as it requires you to install an executable on that Linux computer AND possibly might require a firewall configuration exception on that server for the TCP/IP port you want to use for that.
If neither of these two options is a possibility you have basically given an impossible task and need to talk with your project manager about alternative routes!!
