---
name: "smbmount-2.2.x"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "smbfs"
version: "2.0.7-5"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smbmount-2.2.x"
---

# smbmount-2.2.x(8)

mount an SMB filesystem

## NAME

smbmount - mount an SMB filesystem

## SYNOPSIS

**smbmount** service mountpoint \[ -o options \]

## DESCRIPTION

smbmount mounts a SMB filesystem. It is usually invoked as mount.smbfs from the [mount(8)](/mount/8.md) command when using the "-t smbfs" option. The kernel must support the smbfs filesystem.

Options to smbmount are specified as a comma separated list of key=value pairs.

NOTE: smbmount calls smbmnt to do the actual mount. You must make sure that smbmnt is in the path so that it can be found.

- **username=\<arg\>**

  specifies the username to connect as. If this is not given then the environment variable USER is used. This option can also take the form user%password or user/workgroup or user/workgroup%password to allow the password and workgroup to be specified as part of the username.

-

  - **password=\<arg\>**

  specifies the SMB password. If not given then smbmount will prompt for a passeword, unless the guest option is given.

-

  - **netbiosname=\<arg\>**

  sets the source NetBIOS name. It defaults to the local hostname.

-

  - **uid=\<arg\>**

  sets the uid that files will be mounted as. It may be specified as either a username or a numeric uid.

-

  - **gid=\<arg\>**

  sets the gid that files will be mounted as. It may be specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid.

-

  - **port=\<arg\>**

  sets the remote SMB port number. The default is 139.

-

  - **fmask=\<arg\>**

  sets the file mask. This deterines the permissions that remote files have in the local filesystem. The default is based on the current umask.

-

  - **dmask=\<arg\>**

  sets the directory mask. This deterines the permissions that remote directories have in the local filesystem. The default is based on the current umask.

-

  - **debug=\<arg\>**

  sets the debug level. This is useful for tracking down SMB connection problems.

-

  - **ip=\<arg\>**

  sets the destination host or IP address.

-

  - **workgroup=\<arg\>**

  sets the workgroup on the destination

-

  - **sockopt=\<arg\>**

  sets the TCP socket options. See the smb.conf "socket options" option.

-

  - **scope=\<arg\>**

  sets the NetBIOS scope

-

  - **guest**

  don´t prompt for a password

-

  - **ro**

  mount read-only

-

  - **rw**

  mount read-write

-

  ## AUTHOR

The maintainer of smbfs, smbmnt and smbmount is Andrew Tridgell tridge@samba.org