From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 07:24:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645C537B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40605.mail.yahoo.com (web40605.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1DA843F75 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deesto@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030611142414.30537.qmail@web40605.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [143.48.14.233] by web40605.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:24:14 PDT Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:24:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeStefano To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:24:19 -0000 I'm trying to mount a remote Windows directory, which happens to have a space in its name; "mount -a" returns the following error: fstab: /etc/fstab:14: Inappropriate file type or format I have tried both of the following formats: //user@host/Win\ Partition /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 "//user@host/Win Partition" /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 I pulled this format directly from "man mount_smbfs 8": "//guest@samba/public /smb/public smbfs rw,noauto 0 0" I searched the archives, and it seems this question had been asked once before, but no conclusion was reached: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1042037002.72844.6.camel%40d80h149.public.uconn.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522fstab:%2B/etc/fstab%2522%2B%2522Inappropriate%2Bfile%2Btype%2Bor%2Bformat%2522%2Bsmbfs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D1042037002.72844.6.camel%2540d80h149.public.uconn.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions%26rnum%3D1 Thanks. John DeStefano 9 Lindell Ave Lake Grove, NY 11755 DAY: 516-677-1157 EVE: 631-737-2245 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).