Freebsd Mount a NAS via SMB / CIFS

To mount a NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device via SMB/CIFS in FreeBSD, you can use the mount_smbfs command. Here are the steps:

1. Install the Samba client software if it is not already installed:
   pkg install net/samba44

2. Create a mount point for the NAS share:
   mkdir /mnt/nas

3. Mount the NAS share using the mount_smbfs command, specifying the username, password, and domain (if required) for the share:
   mount_smbfs -I <IP_ADDRESS> -U <USERNAME> //<NAS_HOSTNAME>/<SHARE_NAME> /mnt/nas


   For example, to mount a share named “MyShare” on a NAS with IP address “192.168.1.100” and hostname “MyNAS” using the username “johndoe” and password “mypassword”, you would run the following command:

   mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.100 -U johndoe //MyNAS/MyShare /mnt/nas

4. Verify that the NAS share is mounted by listing the contents of the mount point:
   ls /mnt/nas


   This should display the contents of the NAS share.

To unmount the NAS share, use the umount command:

This will disconnect from the NAS share and unmount it from the file system.