I want to mount an external drive, connected on computer A, to computer B.
I am able to access and mount the drive by connecting to the server through Finder (Command-K), but how can I do this exact action through the terminal? I've been using several formats of mount and mount_afp but nothing seems to work. Something along the lines of:
mount_afp -i afp://user:pass@ipaddress/Volumes/SharedDrive /Volumes/Shared
In Finder, I just type the IP of the Mac connected to the drive, input credentials, and mount the selected drive…but it's not working by simply entering the afp://ipaddress, just like the 'Connect Server' command through Finder, in the terminal.
How do I do the same connection with a bash command? The end result will be the mounted drive on B.
Best Answer
A couple of things you need to be aware of.
First - the AFP URL needs to contain the name of the share - not it's location on the server. Second, the mount point must be an empty directory that you have write permission to. So your commands might be :-