Mounting HFS+ drive over network, write not required

Question

I really need to figure out how to configure out how to get my linux box to mount a drive from my mac. They are permanently networked.

My Mac is called fuzzy, and has been set up to allow the Movies folder out via SMB. I ran smbtree and this drive shows up as \\FUZZY\Movies.

Things I have tried:

sudo mount -t smbfs \\FUZZY\Movies -o username=**,password=** /media/Movies

     Error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

sudo mount -t cifs \\FUZZY\Movies -o username=**,password=** /media/Movies

     Error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on \FUZZYMovies,

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force \\FUZZY\Movies /media/Movies

     mount: special device \FUZZYMovies does not exist

Answer 1

Use slashes (/) instead of backslashes (\).

mount will accept slashes, and the problem with backslashes, even if they are accepted, is that a backslash is also a shell escape character. If you want the mount command to see \\, you would have to put \\\\ on the command line.

So name the host-and-share you want to mount like this:

//FUZZY/Movies

With just that change, your mount commands (except the -t hfsplus one) should be correct. But I recommend writing your Samba mounting commands in a more ordinary fashion, like this:

sudo smbmount //FUZZY/Movies /media/Movies -o username=** -o password=**

(Make sure /media/Movies exists and is empty.)

Even better, if you're invoking this manually anyway, leave off -o password=**; it will prompt you for the password and you can enter it, and then the password won't go into your command history (thus becoming visible in cleartext).