Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:41:19 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [lorenl@alzatex.com: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?] Message-ID: <41FE519F.9090306@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050131134753.GE8619@alzatex.com> References: <20050131120623.GA10752@alzatex.com> <41FE26DD.3020002@freebsd.org> <20050131134753.GE8619@alzatex.com>
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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 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0505-0, 31/01/2005 Tested on: 31/01/2005 15:41:20 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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