{"id":5286,"date":"2020-07-11T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2023-09-05T19:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:55:26","slug":"mount-a-mac-share-from-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=5286","title":{"rendered":"Mount a Mac Share from Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: All of this presumes you know how to create a Mac share and that you have cifs-utils installed on Linux.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following syntax worked perfectly, for me, in 2020 – the Mac OS was Mavericks and the Linux OS was Zorin 15 (Ubuntu “Bionic” 18.04):<\/p>\n

mount -t cifs \/\/ServerName\/ShareName \/mnt\/YourMountPointName -o username=ServerUsername,password=YourPassword,nounix,sec=ntlmssp,vers=1.0<\/pre>\n
If the above is difficult to read…again:<\/p>\n
mount -t cifs \/\/ServerName\/ShareName \/mnt\/YourMountPointName -o username=ServerUsername,password=YourPassword,nounix,sec=ntlmssp,vers=1.0<\/p>\n
Update 2023<\/h2>\n
 Everything on this page – including paragraphs following this update – refer to a method which used to work<\/strong><\/em>.  When, precisely, this new syntax became a standard is something I don’t know – I know that as of High Sierra (a least) the above does not work and the following works as long as the remote samba server has user level shares enabled, and, a user with the same username as the local Mac with sharing privileges granted to that user for the specific share (in smb.conf on Linux):<\/p>\n
mount_smbfs \/\/mac_username:remote_password@the_remote_domain.com\/share_name  \/Users\/guymerritt\/Desktop\/some_directory_on_mac<\/pre>\n
RANDOM NOTE – MOUNT AS MAC USER:<\/strong>  Okay, I think this should be obvious but I just wasted 30-minutes surfing the web looking for an answer to a problem.  I had created a folder on my desktop (Mojave<\/strong>, if it matters) as a mount point and was opening a terminal, switching to the root account (which I enable), and was having all sorts of weirdness mounting a remote, Linux share. I would mount the share and the desktop folder would disappear.  I looked at the folders permissions, when it was mounted (it was still visible from a terminal), and they were “root:wheel”.  Doh.   This needs to be done, in a terminal, from the user account.<\/p>\n
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(Older notes, archived)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Syntax Must Include Version Number<\/h2>\n
I found this syntax on the web, minus the “vers=1.0” at the end. And, without this at the end, the attempt to mount a Mac share failed with an error code (which I don’t recall, at the moment). I believe the error was “operation not supported”.  Oddly, on the page where I found the syntax numerous people thanked the writer and said that it worked perfectly – apparently, without the version number tacked on the end.  All I can say is that, in my experience, this had to be added for the share to be mounted successfully. The version number might have to be adjusted (eg. “vers=2.0”, etc.) – it’s unclear to me.  All I know is that adding “vers=1.0”, from Zorin 15, worked for me.<\/p>\n
This is from the web, regarding smb version numbers, and applys to Windows – just here for my own future reference (should I need this info):<\/p>\n
\nI didn’t find a list of the allowed levels for smbclient. According to Marc Muehlfeld in\u00a0this thread<\/a>\u00a0the versions used by Windows are:<\/p>\n