For accessing Amahi shared folders/files on a Mac OS X computer, you use the Finder.

There are several ways to connect to your Amahi HDA. Using the Finder directly and Connecting to the server share from the Finder.

[edit] Using the Finder Directly

The Finder should show an entry for hda under SHARED on the left pane.

• Click on the hda share. A Finder window should come up with Connected as: Guest at the top. The visible shares should be listed. However, as guest they are not writeable.
• There should be a button to the right saying Connect As ... which when clicked, opens a window (with a derisive picture of a PC with a BSOD) and the option to connect as guest or registered user.
• Click on registered user and in the name put the username you want to access the share as, then the password.
• Click on the Remember this password in my keychain if you want to autoconnect in the future.

[edit] Connecting to a Server from the Finder

Select the Go menu, then:

• Connect to Server (Apple-K shortcut).
  • Enter the Server Address: smb://<user>@hda/Movies with your samba username instead of <user>
  • Press the "+" sign beside the Server Address line, so the connection is saved as a favorite.
  • Click Connect.
• Complete the SMB/CIFS File System Authentication form:
  • Domain: HDA
  • Name: <your HDA username>
  • Password: <your HDA user password>
  • You may want to check the Remember this password in my keychain so you can auto-connect in the future.
• Enjoy, the mounted drive should appear now in the Finder and be available at /Volumes/Movies on your local system.

You can connect to all the HDA shares, like //hda/Docs or //hda/Music, or as many as you have shares.

If your Mac OS X user matches the Samba user, you can eliminate <user>@ above

To set your system to auto-connect at login or startup, see this great intro article.

[edit] Connecting with the command line

For the power users out there, there are commands to mount the Amahi HDA server on demand. This is an example:

mkdir -p ~/Desktop/hda/movies
mkdir -p ~/Desktop/hda/music
mount_smbfs '//hda/movies' ~/Desktop/hda/movies
mount_smbfs  '//hda/music' ~/Desktop/hda/music

The mount commands will ask for password appropriately.

A more general form of this mount command for a given user and a domain is like this:

mount_smbfs  '//home.com;user@hda/share' ~/Desktop/hda/share

You have to replace home.com for your own domain in your network and user for the user you want to access the share as.