How to connect to a network share via command line

The syntax for mounting afp drives:

usage: mount_afp [-o option1[,option2...]] 
 afp://[username:password]@rhost[:port]/volume node

Also from the mount_afp manual:

node Path to mount point, which must be a directory that the user has
 write permissions for.

So the first option has to be modified to:

mount -t afp afp://username:password@domain-or-ip/ShareName/Volumes/ShareName /Volumes/test

Since the mount path is absolute it doesn't matter if your current working directory is different.

Hi,

My apology, I am just wondering, about what you wrote

hungryjoe wrote:
So the first option has to be modified to:

mount -t afp afp://username:password@domain-or-ip/ShareName/Volumes/ShareName /Volumes/test

Since the mount path is absolute it doesn't matter if your current working directory is different.

Shouldn't it be

mount -t afp afp://username:password@domain-or-ip/ShareName/ /Volumes/test

or

mount -t afp afp://username:password@domain-or-ip/ShareName/pathtoFolder /Volumes/test2

Because ShareName is already pointing to a /Volumes/Path/SharedFolder at the afp server...
or am I wrong and there are more posibilities?

Thank you

Yeah, sorry about that! Copy and paste error. Forgot to trim the path from the location of the share. It should usually be the first option that you've mentioned now. Have never really tried the second one though but perhaps it works as well.

Hi,

Nop, no volume name, so far as I know you cant share a Volume by it self, it will need to be always a share.

You can share a volume, but then you give it a share name, maybe or not the same as the /volumes/MyDisk name ( HD at server ).

MyDisk ( mounted f.e as /Volumes/MyDisk on the server) and shared as 'MyDisk'
But lets say I give my 'MyDisk' a share name of 'NewAmsterdam' name instead of 'MyDisk'

then the share is available as f.e. host.domain.tld/sharename

in this case it could be ny.pretendco.com/NewAmsterdam ( depends how your host is setup in the prentendo domain, then yes you have to add the server name )

mount -t afp afp://McToast:password@servername.ny.pretendco.com/NewAmsterdam /volumes/OldAmstel

the mount point doesn't need to be the same name, but for clarity make the names clear-cut and stable for live

So you have to know the share name what that server provides!

But you don't mount Volumes, you mount a share as a volume from the client point of view.

You can mount a folder inside a share

mount -t afp afp://MCToast:password@ny.pretendco.com/NewAmsterdam/McToastFolder/ /Volumes/McToastFolder

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Also, the /volumes/test is telling it where the mount point is? Why can't the mount point just be /volumes? Why do I have to create a new volume in /volumes?
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/Volumes separates the disks/shares from the root drive / . Otherwise, I guess, the start disk will get confused. What if the share name is Users? How else will you go into the Folder structure?

I believe that NFS: can do mount into a folder on the /

HTH

Disclaimer: If I am correct!!

Ps.
NY = New Amsterdam, Amsterdam = Old City with river Amstel, Old Amstel = Old Beer 🙂

McToast wrote:

Now a box pops up asking me to select the volume I want to mount. There are seven volumes (shares, but volumes from the client's point of view, as you say).

Wait, only when you mount them to a /Volumes/xxxx.
Because you can mount it to a folder like /Volumes/NewYork/City/MyPersFolder

McToast wrote:
I select the volume, ISStaff.

ISStaff mounts on my desktop.

Okay. Eject ISSTaff and now try from command line.

*From the Terminal:*

I type: mkdir /volumes/test

Press Return.

I then type: mount -t afp afp://username: password@nycpretendco-groups.ny.pretendco.com /ISStaff /volumes/test

Press Return.

Did you try mount -t afp afp://username:password@nycpretendco-groups/ISStaff/ /volumes/test

If it doesn't work do a ping to ( using the terminal )
nycpretendco-groups
nycpretendco-groups.ny.pretendco.com
ny.pretendco.com

If you have problems then I guess you have a DNS problem and should use an IP address.

Good luck, This is al I know.

Does your password or some other part of the command by any chance contain any unescaped quotes?

"mount -t afp afp://username:password@nycpretendco-groups/ISStaff /Volumes/ISStaff" not working.

My password contains an apostrophe in it, and when you enter it in the password >field in the GUI or invisibly using interactive mode in the CLI, it's okay, but >it messes up the URL for the share when you have to spell it out there.

The mount command would be processed by the command line interpreter. The command line interpreter assume a quote mark starts a quoted field. You need to escape the quote mark. Example.

mount -t afp afp://username:pass\'word@nycpretendco-groups/ISStaff /Volumes/ISStaff

see:
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect0303.html

Great!

Robert