On Thursday 10 January 2008 04:03:02 pm Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:55 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 03:36:59 pm Craig White wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:26 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 02:24:56 pm Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > > > I have read many google threads and cannot seem to figure this one > > > > > out. What I did: > > > > > 1) mkdir /media/Music_A-F > > > > > 2) chmod 0777 /media/Music_A-F > > > > > 3) Edited /etc/fstab and added entry (broken up below but single > > > > > line): //server/share/Music%20A-F > > > > > <TAB>/mnt/share/Music_A-F > > > > > <TAB>cifs > > > > > <TAB>nosuid,nodev,noexec, > > > > > username=user,password=passwd,uid=500, > > > > > gid=500,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0755 > > > > > <TAB>0 0 > > > > > 4) mount -a > > > > > (No errors reported) > > > > > 5) ls -ld /media/Music_A-F > > > > > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Music-AF > > > > > 6) ls /media/Music_A-F > > > > > ls: cannot access Music-AF: No such file or directory > > > > > 7) umount /media/Music_A-F > > > > > (No errors reported) > > > > > 8) ls /media/Music_A-F > > > > > (no errors reported, listed empty directory) > > > > > Anything I am missing? > > > > > Thanks- > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > I discovered the problem. It is that %20 (space) that is not > > > > recognized and causes the mount to blow up. Can someone tell me how > > > > to add spaces in the string: //server/share/Music%20A-F ? What I > > > > want is: //server/share/Music A-F/ > > > > > > ---- > > > enclose in double quotes - omit trailing slash > > > "//server/share/Music A-F" > > > Craig > > > > That does not work. Mount complains : > > + mount -a > > [mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad > > > > Any ideas? > > ===== > show us the entire line Ok, I responded earlier, but the actual line that I used for the shared fstab mount is (all on a single line of course): //server/J$/Music\040A-F <tab>/media/Music-AF <tab>cifs <tab>nosuid,noexec, credentials=/etc/samba/auth.smb, uid=500,gid=500,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0755 <tab>0 0 Since I wanted the mount to appear on my desktop, I omitted the nodev option. The /etc/samba/auth.smb file contains text: username=<username> password=<password> Cheers, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list