Macos – mounting a network drive cifs mac osx

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I've been handed a mac and I'm having issues. I had an ubuntu setup where I would type:

sudo mount -t cifs //fs/CakeRecipes /mnt/fs/CakeRecipes -o username=fegur,domain=KitchenLord,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

to get access to the CakeRecipes folder. Sadly this does not work on OSX. If I type in this command directly, I get

mount: exec /Library/Filesystems/cifs.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_cifs for /mnt/fs/KitchenLord: No such file or directory

I have created /mnt/fs/KitchenLord on my local machine, so I'm not sure what this error is talking about.

Any hints would be appreciated. Googling is not helping much.

Best Answer

On OS X, the filesystem plugin for CIFS/SMB is named smbfs, and its options are a bit different. I think it should be something like this:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o -f=0777,-d=0777 '//KitchenLord;fegur@fs/CakeRecipes' /mnt/fs/CakeRecipes

...but in my quick test it doesn't seem to be obeying the -f and -d options. Anyway, check the man page for mount_smbfs for more info.

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