Re: [lorenl@alzatex.com: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?]

From: Mark Ovens (marko_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 01/31/05

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    Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:41:19 +0000
To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>

    Loren M. Lang wrote:
    > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:38:53PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
    >> Loren M. Lang wrote:
    >> >replacing MYWORKGROUP, SERVER, USER, secret as neccessary. Make sure
    >> >nsmb.conf is only readable by root. Add the following line to fstab:
    >> >
    >> >//user@server/share /mnt/share smbfs rw 0 0
    >> >
    >>
    >> PMJI, but do you know if it's possible to handle a share name containing
    >> a space when mounting smb filesystems using fstab?
    >>
    >> I tried
    >>
    >> "//user@server/Drive C"
    >> '//user@server/Drive C'
    >> //user@server/Drive\ C
    >>
    >> None of these worked. I know that using spaces in filenames is a Bad
    >> Idea, but this is Windows we're talking about here ;-)
    >
    > A random guess might be to try: //user@server/Driver%20C
    > %20 refers to the ascii character with hex value 20 which is space.
    > It's what webservers use for getting around spaces, samba might too.`
    > I'd be really curious to see if this works.
    >

    Nope:

    //mark@red-shift/Drive%20C /smb2 smbfs rw,noauto 0 0

    postbag# mount /smb2
    Password:
    smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = No such file or directory

    Using \x20 produced the same result. The other three that I mentioned
    all produce:

    postbag# mount /smb2
    fstab: /etc/fstab:17: Inappropriate file type or format
    fstab: /etc/fstab:17: Inappropriate file type or format
    mount: /smb2: unknown special file or file system

    Which suggests that it's interpreting the space as a delimiter and
    ignoring the escapes.

    Mark 

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