mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab

John DeStefano deesto at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 11 07:24:19 PDT 2003


I'm trying to mount a remote Windows directory, which happens to have a space in its name; "mount -a" returns the following error:
fstab: /etc/fstab:14: Inappropriate file type or format

I have tried both of the following formats:
//user at host/Win\ Partition     /mountpoint   smbfs   rw     0   0
"//user at host/Win Partition"   /mountpoint   smbfs   rw     0   0
 
I pulled this format directly from "man mount_smbfs 8":
"//guest at samba/public        /smb/public     smbfs   rw,noauto 0  0"
 
I searched the archives, and it seems this question had been asked once before, but no conclusion was reached:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1042037002.72844.6.camel%40d80h149.public.uconn.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522fstab:%2B/etc/fstab%2522%2B%2522Inappropriate%2Bfile%2Btype%2Bor%2Bformat%2522%2Bsmbfs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D1042037002.72844.6.camel%2540d80h149.public.uconn.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions%26rnum%3D1
 
Thanks.


John DeStefano
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