On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 09:40 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 09:42 +0000, Ken Gillett wrote: > > I’m really struggling with this and hope someone can point me to a > > solution. > > > > I need to automount onto a mountpoint (directory, i.e. folder as > > it’s > > on OS X) that has a space in the name and I cannot change that. > > I’ve > > read many suggestions to escape the space with a ‘\’ or ‘\040’ or > > quote the path, but nothing I’ve tried works. It either simply > > fails > > to work or creates the mountpoint that includes the escape chars in > > its name. > > > > To clarify, other mounts that have no space involved work fine, so > > the basic setup is sound and if the automount is configured in a > > local (LDAP) directory, the space is no problem. However, I don’t > > want to use that method and really need to use simple map files in > > /etc, but there seems to be this issue with how they are parsed. I > > am > > clearly not the only person with this problem. > > > > I’d really appreciate it if someone could explain how to overcome > > this and allow for spaces in pathnames used in map files. > > The handling of spaces in automounting when using Sun format maps is > difficult because of the syntax of the map format, it allows for > ambiguity which make quoting difficult. > > So I'm not surprised to here this. > But sadly I don't think we can help you because OSX uses a different > implementation to Linux autofs which I know nothing about. Thinking about this, if the OSX implementation is from the original BSD (and a Google search shows the utilities look like those in old IRIX distributions) then they would have been trying to provide functionality as found in Solaris. So a web search for Solars autofs documentation might help but quoting in that was difficult too. For example I seem to remember that to quote a location you needed to quote the path and not the server name, eg. server:"/path/to share". Don't remember seeing anything about keys though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
