Problem mounting NAS volume as afp from command line. Mac OS

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX Series
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I want to setup some automatic backup scripts so I was trying to make sure the drive gets mounted before running rsync. When I try something like “mount -t afp //user:pass@NAS/share /mnt/somewhere” I get:
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 0

But when I try: “mount -t smbfs //user:pass@NAS/share /mnt/somewhere” it works fine!

I have AFP enabled and I can mount from finder using “afp://…”.
So any idea why the command line mount doesn’t work?

Perf tests indicate AFP is faster than SMB so I’d really prefer to always mount as AFP.
Cheers!

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Hopefully an experienced User will be able to assist.

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Hi there phbcanada,

I was searching for the same thing and ran across this to do the mount for me, however, I am getting two icons on my desktop to the Share.

mkdir /mnt/somewhere
mount_afp -k afp://user:pass@servername/share /mnt/somewhere

It works for me. Maybe you can help me get rid of the second icon on my desktop when the mount happens.

You can “man mount_afp” for details.

Hope this helps.
Daniel

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Try running the mount command in a Terminal window and see what it shows you.