Cannot mount afp share from Terminal

You have to specify a local match to mount it at. The Finder will mount into /Volumes. You should create a directory somewhere else and use that as your mount point.

You could try:

open afp://username:password@servername/Updates

which should mount the in /Volumes as you seem to want to do.

If you want to use mount_afp, then you need to have a 2nd argument on the command line that specifies where you want to mount the file system, as etresoft says

sudo mkdir -p /mnt

sudo mount_afp -o nobrowse afp://username:password@servername/Updates /mnt

as an example

Had to create a directory in Volumes to make it worked, but this worked. Thanks!

I tried to say you need to have the mount point directory by including the:

sudo mkdir -p /mnt

in my example 🙂

Now...how would you unmount this volume in the terminal if you don't always know the disk# (ie. disk1s2). Can you unmount by the volume name?

Yes.

sudo umount /Volumes/Updates

Assuming that is the directory you created to mount this on.

Note the exact spelling of 'umount'

Message was edited by: BobHarris