I know I can mount Samba share using either mount
or open
command from the terminal shell. See this related question: How can I mount an SMB share from the command line?. I prefer using open
because it mounts the shared folder under /Volumes
which seems kind of OS X standard, the expected thing. Namely this happens by typing
open "smb://guest:@${host}/${path_component}"
(where ${host}
is the host name or IP address of the Samba share and ${path_component}
is the path or "name" of the Samba share).
The result and the main thing is that I can access the stuff from /Volumes/${path_component}
.
This is very nice indeed. Just there are two problems or nuisance doing this from within scripts. The first is that this will open a superfluous progress indicator and then Finder window. The second, lesser one as there are scriptable work-arounds, is that the command returns immediately without waiting for the mount to be really available.
Is there a way to (synchronously) mount Samba shares under /Volumes
without extraneous windows popping up?
(I am using the latest OS X (Sierra).)
Best Answer
The following is what I use to mount Samba shares via
launchd
:Using
osascript
'smount
means anykeychain
access needed is done "automagically", there's no progress indicator or Finder window, and the command waits for the mount to be available before proceeding (try it with&& echo -n "Done."; mount
appended to the end of the above command to test this).