Cannot Mount Linux SMB Share In macOS 10.12.6

[simon lefisch]

Hello everyone,

I have a CentOS file server running SMB and I am unable to mount it in macOS using Terminal. I have ran the following commands and receive errors:

$mount -t smbfs //username:password@server_ip/share\ name ~/local_dir

mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and try again: Invalid argument

I then came across something saying to use %20 for the space in-between the share name:

$mount -t smbfs //username:password@server_ip/share%20name ~/local_dir

Which then gave me the following output:

usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special node
       mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type]
       mount [-dfruvw] special | node

I'm at a bit of a loss here now. I've tried to Google what I should input next but have yet to find something to guide as to what to do now. Everything I found says the above command should've mounted the share. Any ideas as to what I'm missing?

 

[simon lefisch]

So, nothing? Bummer.

I think I'm actually going to ditch macOS as a server on my Mac Pro 5,1 and install CentOS anyway. After messing around with configuration, macOS as a server OS is quite horrible.