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copied!<p>If <code>mount(8)</code> can't just call the <code>mount</code> syscall on the filesystem, it looks for a program to help it. On FreeBSD and Mac OS X, those helper programs follow the naming convention <code>mount_XXX</code>, where <code>XXX</code> is the <code>-t</code> argument's value. </p> <p>That means you want to check the <code>mount_smbfs(8)</code> <a href="http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/mount_smbfs.8.html" rel="nofollow">man page</a>, which tells us about <code>-N</code>:</p> <pre><code>-N Do not ask for a password. At run time, mount_smbfs reads the ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf file for additional configuration parameters and a password. If no password is found, mount_smbfs prompts for it. </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately the man page trail ends with one for <code>nsmb.conf</code> that doesn't <a href="http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/nsmb.conf.5.html" rel="nofollow">mention anything about storing passwords</a>. On FreeBSD 8.0, at least, the solution is <a href="http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1252" rel="nofollow">to put a <code>password</code> key with a plain text(!) password value under a <code>[SERVER:USER]</code> heading</a>. That would be type <code>C</code> according to the linked <code>nsmb.conf</code> man page.</p> <p>So it seems that you'll want to dump a pre-configured <code>nsmb.conf</code> into your user's <code>~/Library/Preferences/</code> directory and then call your <code>mount</code> command with <code>-N</code>. As far as I know you can't provide a hashed value, which is not especially awesome. I'll try to get access to a MacBook in a few hours to test this.</p> <p><strong>NB</strong>: This is <em>not</em> how to do it with the GNU toolchain. If you're on Linux, you're probably going to be using something like <code>mount.cifs(8)</code>. The correct solution in <em>that</em> case is the <code>credentials=filename</code> option (used after <code>-o</code>, of course), where <code>filename</code> is a file of credentials in <code>key=value</code> form, separated by newlines. See <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs" rel="nofollow">http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs</a></p>

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