How to mount a Samba directory through Terminal, in the same way as CMD+K in Finder?

Historically, I've had better success using AppleScript to automate mounting of AFP and SMB shares. For example:

mount volume "smb://server/ShareName"

Or, from Terminal, you can use:

osascript -e 'mount volume "smb://server/ShareName"'

You can enhance the command with user@server syntax. Or you should be able to save the credentials in Keychain (assuming you require authentication to connect to the NAS).

However, when talking rsync and scripted automation, I generally will use SSH, not AFP or SMB. If your NAS supports SSH you might find this easier to automate. Using scripts to mount the volume will require the host system to be logged in while the use of SSH will still work if the rsync initiator is at the login window. Additionally, the Finder can get wacky every so often and generate duplicate mounts. In the Finder everything looks fine but in the Volumes directory you get the ghost mount and then indexed mounts (Mount 1, Mount 2, etc).

Hope this is helpful.

Reid

You could also use

open smb://user@server.address/share

from a Terminal session, or put that into a shell script.

The 'open' command is very useful. You can start a Screen Sharing (or VNC) session using:

open vnc://user@vnc.server.address

If the VNC server does not use the default 5900 port number you could specify it as:

open vnc://user@vnc.server.address:5905

assuming the VNC server is using port 5905. adjust accordingly.

You can open a web page in a default web browser

open https://web.page.address/any/additional/suffixes

You can start an ssh session with:

open ssh://remote.system.address

You can tell the Finder to open a folder

open /path/to/the/folder

You an open a file in the file's default application

open /path/to/the/file

You can open a file in a specific application

open -a application /path/to/the/file

The 'open' command can do so much more. See:

man open