On Monday 01 December 2003 00:14, John Ellenberger wrote: > Ok this is probably a dumb syntax question but I can translate valid > mount -t smbfs commands to a valid line in fstab for windows shares > that have a space in the name (i.e. "C Drive"). > > The command: > > Mount -t smbfs "//rimshot/c drive" /rimshot/c ... > > won't work in fstab: > > "//rimshot/c drive" /rimshot/c smbfs ... > > I get "bad line" from the function that mount uses to grab the stuff > from the file. > > Also the lines that I can get to work in fstab (i.e. no spaces in the > share name) show up as icons on the desktop. Is there any way to > give them a name other than the default drive name? > > John > > (for now I just used the mount in rc.local for the shares with > spaces...kinda clunky) Have you tried the "\040" bit mentioned in "man fstab"? Searching via Google shows some messages that indicates this might work: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=urm1tukkt2n2lra97jmhlhgjsiiritmfmi%404ax.com&rnum=16&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dfstab%2Bsmbfs%2Bspaces%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3Durm1tukkt2n2lra97jmhlhgjsiiritmfmi%25404ax.com%26rnum%3D16 Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
