David's Tech Tips

I still feel like a noob on a Mac even though I’ve been working professionally on one for almost 9 months.  Today I needed to copy files from one Mac to another and I wanted to do that all from the command line.  One way to do that is to use the mount command.  Here are the steps:

cd /Volumes
mkdir remotedisk
mount -t afp afp://remotehost/shareddir remotedisk

The trick here is to specify the file system (-t afp) and to specify the remote shared folder with the correct syntax (afp://remotehost/shareddir).

I found the man pages for mount to be less than helpful for discovering this.  However, I did find a web page that helped.