gio mount smb://<servername>/<sharename>
# enter password
# once the mount is created it will create a temporary path located at  the following path, for example:
# /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share\:server\=host.domain.com\,share\=files/
ln -s /run/user/<userid>/gvfs/smb-share\:server\=<servername>\,share\=<sharename>/ ~/<mountpoint>