Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:09:54 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [lorenl@alzatex.com: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?] Message-ID: <41FFB7E2.4000100@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050201152035.GA7969@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20050131120623.GA10752@alzatex.com> <41FE26DD.3020002@freebsd.org> <20050131134753.GE8619@alzatex.com> <20050201152035.GA7969@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:47:53AM -0800, Loren M. Lang typed: >> 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. > > The following seems to work for me: > > root@ei:/root> mount_smbfs //odo/"Temp Dir" /mnt > Password: > root@ei:/root> mount | grep smbfs > //ROOT@ODO/TEMP DIR on /mnt (smbfs) > root@ei:/root> > Yes, that WFM too. The problem is if you try to add that as an entry in /etc/fstab as it cannot handle the space. I had a quick look in fstab.c and there appears to be no handling of escaped characters, which is understandable I suppose since the first field would normally be something /dev/da0s1a Mark --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0505-0, 31/01/2005 Tested on: 02/02/2005 01:30:28 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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