From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 12:24:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892EF14CAA for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:24:08 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A1E@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'Cesar L. Perez'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Folders names in Windows with Samba Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:26:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you quote it you don't need the double slashes anymore. That may even return an error, although I'm not sure as I can't test at the moment. p.s. it's easier to just type //server/sharename and it works just as well. :) -Chris P.S. If that doesn't work, please report back with more detailed information, such as an error message and what steps you took. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ladavac Marino [SMTP:mladavac@metropolitan.at] > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 8:02 AM > To: 'Cesar L. Perez'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Folders names in Windows with Samba > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cesar L. Perez [SMTP:cesarlp@quik.guate.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 10:59 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Folders names in Windows with Samba > > > > Hi again experts!! > > > > Be pacience, I'm a completely FBSD dummie. > > > > I'm using samba, and smbclient to access to windows 95 machines, when > > the machine name have spaces , it doesn't work. > > Theres something special with the folders names in the Networkl and > > Samba? in others machines with netbios aliases without spaces > > smbclient work correctly. What's wrong? > [ML] Nothing is wrong, it is just the shell command line > parsing artefact. You should quote them. > > smbclient "\\\\machine with spaces\\share with spaces" > > the shell then interprets that as one word and passes it as such > to the smbclient. > > The same applies to any other unix command: > vi "filename with spaces in it" > etc. > > > Please help me! > > > > Cesar L. Perez > > cesarlp@quik.guate.com > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message