Ubuntu – How to access gvfs mounts from command line

You can use:

mount -t smbfs //servername/myshare /mnt/servername/myshare -o username=myself

mount.cifs //servername/myshare /mnt/servername/myshare -o user=username,pass=password
is another option for scripting purposes.

If it doesn't work, try cifs instead of smbfs, aparently cifs works for newer Windows servers, but I've never had to use it.

Where //servername/myshare is the share address, and /mnt/servername/myshare is the mount folder in your system.

Once it's mounted you can access the share at /mnt/servername/myshare via command line.

I found the solution in this Ubuntu Forums: smbclient works, mount -t smbfs doesn't

The ~/.gvfs directory should be a FUSE mount handled by the gvfs-fuse-daemon process. If the directory appears to be empty, it would indicate that gvfs-fuse-daemon did not start correctly.

You could try starting it manually with the following command:

/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon ~/.gvfs

If that fails, you could try checking whether anything else is mounted there, or even delete and recreate the ~/.gvfs directory first. If things still fail, could you update your question and provide any error messages printed by gvfs-fuse-daemon?

** On 14.04 the daemon is called gvfsd-fuse and can be found in /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse.