[lug] syntax of smbmount in my fstab

Nick Golder purenrg at hiveportal.net
Thu Feb 27 10:26:41 MST 2003


On 03-02-27 09:48 -0700, the infamous Warren Sanders uttered:
> I have a problem with the syntax of one of my smbmounts in the fstab. 
> Problem is I can't give the filesystem as a quoted statement for the 
> purpose of spaces in the name.
> 
> I can manually do it by 'smbmount "//Mill/mill c drive" /home/CNC/Mill/ -o 
> username=cnc'.  But this in my fstab wont work:
> "//Mill/mill c drive"   /home/CNC/Mill  smb    username=cnc,password=cnc 0 0
> 
> I know; change the name!  But then I'd have to redo all the maps for the 
> other machines on the network and besides it's at a remote location.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Warren Sanders
> http://MontanaLinux.Org
> 
> 

Create a second share to the same target with a syntactically friendly
name.  This will preserve your existant maps and allow for correct
future maps. 

-- 
-Nick Golder
http://www.hiveportal.net



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