/etc/fstab + embedded spaces

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:

> On Tue 2009-11-03 06:57:12 UTC-0500, carmel_ny (carmel_ny at hotmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > I was attempting to create this entry in the /etc/fstab file. It is to
> > a WinXP machine.
> >
> > //user at bios/My Documents /laptop smbfs rw,noauto  0  0
> >
> > It fails because 'fstab' does not allow embedded spaces in device
> > names, not does it allow enclosing the name in quotes.
>
> A workaround may be to run mount_smbfs from /etc/crontab (or perhaps
> the root user's crontab), eg.
>
> @reboot         /usr/sbin/mount_smbfs -N "//user at bios/My Documents"
> /laptop
>
> or similar.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
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windows path's have alternate eg c:\Test~1


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Adam Vande More