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I have a hard drive in my mid 2010 Mac Pro that contains my recorded media. I want to run Kodi on a Raspberry P3 B. To do so I need the P3 to see the Mac volume. I have the volume on the Mac setup to share and have windows sharing turned on. It says the volumes can be at smb://192.168.0.###. I have a folder on the P3 at home/pi/Martha for the media. In fstab I first had //192.168.0### /home/pi/Martha. This would ask for the root password for //192.168.0.###. No password would work. I then changed fstab to //198.168.0.###/Volumes/Martha. The volume on the Mac is also called Martha. When I try to mount this I get “can’t find home/pi/Martha in /etc/fstab. How do I get the P3 to see the Mac volume. Everything I read is how to get volumes mounted on the P3 to be seen on the Mac. I need to go the other way.

Try this, I got my first Rpi this week and puzzled over this too - but got it to reliably mount a Mac-Mini folder on startup when I remembered to configure it to "Wait for Network".

Extra line in fstab is:

//192.168.X.XX/pi/Public /home/pi/MacDrive cifs defaults,uid=pi,gid=pi,user=pi,password=raspberry,rw 0

That is ..... //Mac-Mini IP Address/MacUser/MacFolder /(Rpi folder "MacDrive" is inside /home/pi/) cifs.......and so on................

To get it working I set up a Mac user as "pi" with password of "raspberry", not very imaginative - I could have used existing Macuser details. Made sure that user Public folder was shared. Now I have about +200Gb storage available.