shell script to mount smb shares

i think that's not the right command for mounting an smb share, not sure what you mean here.

i can make a shell script to mount my shares with user and password specified for each mount and add that to crontab to execute the script AFTER mac OS user logs in.

thank you BobHarris for that .... i was issuing the command wrong

assuming a share is not mounted, issuing this command you posted will mount it and create the mount point in /Volumes ?

shell script 'open' method does not rely on keychain, if i specify the username:password directly in the line ... ?

i was looking to avoid doing this with login/startup items. the list in login items does not respect the order of the items listed. it just executes them 'whenever'. if i use a shell script, it runs the commands in order of how they are listed, which is nice when you want the shares to open as tabs in your finder in a certain order. i would not be exploring this option if finder would remember my open tabs on external volumes, or allow me to arrange startup items in the order i want them to execute. i created an app with automator that has the shell scripts execute 1 by 1, where each one calls on opening a share in finder, which creates the tab where i want to see it. easy to navigate finder when you know exactly where the tab to the path you want is always in the same place.

i was using the mount command to do this and it appeared to work, but the share was not appearing in /Volumes. it was there, because an 'ls -al' put up a message saying "access denied ... /Volumes/sharename" -- i don't recall the entirety of the line ls printed. but that line applied to the share i tried with 'mount'. and it was not shown in the ls output.

thanks for this tip, but i don't know what Automount is, technically. is it some framework in mac OS ?

i lucked out some time ago and found a freeware app called Connect Me Now. pretty nifty tool with lots of options for mounting shares. for the most part works well, except sometimes it hiccups, forgets a share path and it doesn't mount. recently all my shares dropped completely out of nowhere but that was a 1-off.

i can't have that concern when i have automated syncrhonizing apps launching and copying data to smb shares ... if that happened during the job, that could corrupt the destination data. not sure if it would corrupt the source data residing on the mac.

would it do the same thing as 'open' directly to the smb share ? silently without opening any finder windows ?

by default finder windows open when the share mounts at startup, but this app i use 'Connect Me Now' is doing it silently without new finder windows or tabs. i prefer to run another script to open the folder paths in sequence in finder after the mount event.

to avoid confusion, i just want to do the following with a shell script:

mount smb shares 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

wait a few seconds to ensure they're all mounted

open individual finder tabs for the share paths i use often

sorry if i'm making it confusing or complex sounding and thank you for helping me with this

just need a little help with how to write the line that mounts the share and sets the sharepath. not sure if diskutil can do it or whether i can use mount command in mac OS