On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 19:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good afternoon. This is my first post to this list. Are there archives for > this list someplace? I couldn't find any. > > I am using autofs to mount smbfs shares. This works fine as long as there is > no whitespace in the smb host name. The following command (not using autofs) > works: > > mount -t smbfs '//WINBLOWS 98/C' /mnt/tmp > > but it appears that there's no way to generate this with autofs (at least > using a "program" map as I require) because the parse_mount() function uses > skipspace() and chunk_len() to determine "what" to be mounted, and these > functions do not allow for escaping whitespace in any way. The debug output > shows "core of entry: WINBLOWS " (i.e. it's missing the second word); thus the > mount fails. > > I'm using 3.1.6 which is installed by Redhat 7.1, although I'm looking at the > source code for 3.1.7. > > Has anyone worked on patches to allow mounting of shares with embedded > whitespace? (In fact, SMB allows for *leading* whitespace; that's just > plain nasty. Right now, I'd settle for embedded whitespace handling. :-) > > Thanks! > > Derrell > Hi Derrell,
pls report this to SicroMoft. Whitespaces are per standard FORBIDDEN in hostnames. Regards Frank
