Macos – View Shared Folders from Terminal

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How can one list the shared folders of a server from the OSX Terminal? For example, I know that on server1, there are several shared folders, but to mount them, I need to know the name of these folders before I can mount them

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SMB

Mac OS X 10.7 and above have the smbutil(1) command, which lists SMB shares (i.e. Windows shares):

smbutil view //user@hostname

In OS X versions prior to Lion (10.7), the smbclient(1) command was shipped:

smbclient -L //user@hostname

For more options, check the respective manpages.

NFS

For NFS, showmount(8) lists all available mounts on a host:

showmount hostname

AFP

None I'm aware of at the moment. See this Stack Overflow question: How to list AFP shares from command-line (MacOS)?

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ssh computer_name

You'll need to turn on Remote Login in the Sharing Prefs Pane of the computer you want to connect to.

macOS Symbolic Link – How to Share Home Folders Between Operating Systems

Since OSX is Unix based you can make a symbolic link with ln or just use mount to mount the partition to a folder and edit fstab with vifs.

ln -s SOURCE TARGET
To mount:

Find UUID:

the UUID can be found in Disk Utility (File > Get Info on a volume)
the UUID can also be found using diskutil info /Volumes/yourVolumeName in Terminal
the preferred way to edit /etc/fstab is now by using the command sudo vifs, but that means you have to edit using Vim. Vim can be learned by typing the command vimtutor. I just used sudo nano /etc/fstab because I didn't know at the time.

So now use vifs and add a line:

UUID=FAB060E9-79F7-33FF-BE85-E1D3ABD3EDEA  /path/to/folder    hfs    rw

Best Answer

SMB

NFS

AFP

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