SMB share via terminal

[Maccle]

Hey,
I've searched around but couldn't find what I need. I have a share on my PC and want to access it from my MBP. When I use 'Connect to server' from Finder, it works fine. What I want to do is to be able to browse the share via the terminal as if it was any other directory. Is there a way to use the terminal to browse the SMB share instead of using Finder? Thanks!

 

[Madd the Sane]

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Open the Terminal and drag the mounted share. Make sure you type "cd " first.

 

[Maccle]

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Open the Terminal and drag the mounted share. Make sure you type "cd " first.

Awesome, had no idea you could do that. I tried creating an alias folder and accessing that from terminal but it wouldn't work. Is there a way to connect the two processes together so that I don't have to use Finder to drag from? Thanks!

 

[Madd the Sane]

Mounted file systems (which is what SMB is) will be in /Volumes. Just search for your mounted SMB name.

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

I think the OP was asking how to do the mount from the command line rather than how to access the volume once mounted.

You can use mount_smbfs to mount a volume, or if you simply want to do some file transfers, you can do that without mounting the file system with the smbclient program which acts much like FTP.

 

[Maccle]

Thanks ScoobyMcDoo, that's the command I needed for the mounting.