Where are smbmounts mounted?

[Craig Thomas]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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?

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/point/ -o 
workgroup=workgroup,username=user,password=password