Accessing SMB/Windows Shares from 10.1

Sep 28, '01 10:29:27PM

Contributed by: davetron5000

10.1 claims to be able to access Windows (aka Samba) shares through Finder. It does, but getting it to work is not obvious. According to a KnowledgeBase article, you do "Connect to Server.." in finder and enter a URL of the form:

smb://servername/sharename/

Two things to note:

  1. The actual url might require a username, in the form of:

    smb://Username@servername/sharename/

    where Username is a user that can log into the box.

  2. You cannot access shares that require Microsoft's Active Directory Service for authentication (as far as I have been told). It seems that this requires a different kind of password encryption not supported by OS X
I have not been able to determine how to do the mount on the command line, but it is probably done via the mount command as normal in unix with smbfs as the filesystem type.

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