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Buadhai

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Jan 15, 2018
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This on a 2017 iMac running 10.15.7

I'm a little confused as to how the Finder displays mounted SMB shares.

I have a remote Raspberry Pi which is behind a double NAT. I have set up a reverse SSH tunnel for access to SMB shares. The code on the Pi looks like this:

Code:
ssh -nNTC  -R 33445:localhost:445 me@my.domain.com -p 30000

If I connect to a share via the Finder using this URI: smb://pi@localhost:33445/chaammountain/

The Finder creates a mount point in /Volumes as follows:

Code:
MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ cd /Volumes/chaammountain/
MrMuscle:chaammountain mnewman$ pwd
/Volumes/chaammountain

However, in the Finder, the SMB share is not shown at all except as a share called "localhost" under Locations/Network. (I do have "Connected servers" selected in Locations in the Finder's Sidebar preferences.)

On the other hand, Path Finder displays the SMB share in Devices as chaammountain.

I guess this the way the Finder is supposed to work, but I find it odd that a mounted share doesn't show up in what the Finder calls Locations and that you have to dig for it.
 
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