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I agree, for most cases just mount it via your File Manager of choice. If you're using it as a backing storage for another server, then that's a use case where fstab is fine.
I've found that Dolphin, at least, is much slower with network mounts than a CLI-based "mount".
If I mount it in the file manager, how do I reference that location in the terminal to say do copy operations to it?
It has to have a mount point somewhere. Just double click the desktop entry, that will mount it wherever you told it to and then you can copy to that location, easy peasy 😉.