[lug] syntax of smbmount in my fstab
Michael Deck
deckm at cleansoft.com
Thu Feb 27 10:29:34 MST 2003
At 09:48 AM 2/27/2003, you wrote:
>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
I haven't ever tried this, but would it work to escape the spaces, like
//Mill/mill\ c\ drive /home/CNC/Mill smb username=cnc,password=cnc 0 0
I've had to resort to this trick when modifying files created by Windoze.
Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.
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