Re: Where are smbmounts mounted?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 13:45 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:47 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > If one does a smbmount using Places -> Connect to server (or from
> > Nautilus) where is the Windowa share mounted? In other words where
> > could it be found for command line commands?
> 
> I don't think they are mounted.  You're talking through the Nautilus
> program using the SMB protocol, directly.
> 
> It's a bit like asking where a FTP site gets mounted when you connect to
> it with a FTP client.  It isn't, and you can't access it with some other
> program through the directory tree, unless you've got some *other*
> system that does mount it onto the tree.
> 
What you say makes sense, especially since under Places the option is
Connect to server, not mount from server.

But that leaves a mystery. The man page of mount indicates the existence
of a mount.smbfs (which does not seem to exist). Then there is smbmount
which I thought used to exist but I can't find it in the distribution.
The implication is that you can mount a file share. Can you? And if you
can , how do you do it?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>