mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab

[John DeStefano]

I'm afraid you may be right, Matt.
I found the following in "man fstab 5":
"If a program needs the character special file name, the pro-
     gram must create it by appending a ``r'' after the last ``/'' in the spe-
     cial file name."
...but that didn't seem to help.
The mount_smbfs command seems to work fine with the "\ " sequence, but this isn't the case with fstab.
Perhaps if I were instead to include mount_smbfs commands in a script to be run at boot time:
#!/bin/sh 
mount_smbfs //user at host/Win\ Partition /mountpoint 
 
Is this the proper syntax for a script?  And if so, where would I put such a file?
Thank you,
~John


Matthew Emmerton <matt at gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:> 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

I think the problem is that the fstab(5) file format treats spaces as field
delimiters, and the routines used to parse fstab
(/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/fstab.c, fstabscan() in particular) do not know how
to handle escaped spaces nor quoted fields.

--
Matt Emmerton



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