mount(shell)

mount — mount an installable file system

mount URL

Mount a volume located at URL . The format of the URL is:

fstype://host:port/dir

The command

% mount http://192.168.0.237/remote

mounts the directory remote , served by 192.168.0.237 and makes it available on the local machine.

The format of a Samba URL is:

smb://[[domain;]username[:password]@]hostname[:port]/share[/path]

NOTE:: The semicolon following the domain is also the shell command separator, so for use from the command line just specify the hostname.

To mount the Samba volume on hostname ,

% mount smb://hostname/share