/tags/smb/ Recent content in SMB on Ray Mah's Blog Hugo en Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/mapping-smb-share-on-a-mac/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/mapping-smb-share-on-a-mac/ <p>To map an SMB share on a Mac via the terminal:</p> <ol> <li>Create a new folder to act as the mount point. This is essentially a proxy for the folder on the remote machine.</li> </ol> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-BASH" data-lang="BASH"><span class="line"><span class="cl">mkdir ~/share-home </span></span></code></pre></div><ol start="2"> <li>Enter this command to link the new folder to the share.</li> </ol> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-BASH" data-lang="BASH"><span class="line"><span class="cl">mount -t smbfs //user@share-host/share-name ~/share-home </span></span></code></pre></div><ul> <li><code>user</code>: your SMB user name on the machine hosting the SMB share.</li> <li><code>share-host</code> : The IP address or network name of the SMB host machine.</li> <li><code>share-name</code> : The name of the SMB share.</li> <li><code>~/share-home</code> : The name of the folder we created in step 1.</li> </ul> <p>After that you can access the files in the share from the folder created in step 1. Note that this is temporary and will not persist after a reboot.</p>