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I've got a script that's running as a non-root user that needs to be able to open an SMB share. As it's not root, it can't create a folder in /Volumes, so I need to use "open" rather than "mount".



However in recent macOS versions there's a prompt saying "Connecting to" such and such a server.



Is there any command line switch which can bypass that prompt?



Thanks,
Dan Jackson (Senior ITServices Technician)
Long Road Sixth Form College
Cambridge, UK.

have you tried



mount_smbfs //$Uname:$Passw@$SambaShare $Location


I haven't actually done this but worked off the Man Page - 'man mount_smbfs'



NAME

     mount_smbfs -- mount a shared resource from an SMB file server



SYNOPSIS

     mount_smbfs [-N] [-o options] [-d mode] [-f mode] [-h] [-s] [-v]

                 //[domain;][user[:password]@]server[/share] path



DESCRIPTION

     The mount_smbfs command mounts a share from a remote server using

     SMB/CIFS protocol.

@DanJ_LRSFC Try this:



#!/bin/bash



# SMB location here

serverShare="server.yourcorp.com/share"



# Allow unknown servers

# https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207112

# This should really be done via a Configuration Profile

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkAuthorization AllowUnknownServers -bool YES

sleep 5



# Mount the drive as john_doe while logged in as john_doe

loggedInUser=$(/usr/bin/python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + "

");')

path="smb://${loggedInUser}:@${serverShare}"

/usr/bin/osascript -e "mount volume "$path""



exit 0

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