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Samba Mounts in OSX from the Command Line

Even though OSX is one of the best operating systems on the market, it's not without it's shortcomings. As a veteran Mac user who spent the last 5-10 years in a Windows world, I've noticed a few quirks to OSX that have been frustratingly not-intuitive. For example, OSX's method of mounting Samba shares via the Finder's handy "Connect to Server" menu option is a little too automated. It places the mounted directory in /Volumes, which is hidden by default.