On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Gonz?lez Gasull wrote: > Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you try umounting /floppy? i had this problem > > when i was playing around with smbmount (stupid > > !@)#' $(%^&* characters in the sharenames) > > (literally those characters, especially &, ', and > > space) and it would fail and leave the directory > > wedged... IIRC umount fixed it. > > Maybe help: Look at the Codepages your kernel is > supporting. You may need some of them for name of > the files in the disk. Windows 95 uses some of this > Codepages. Look at
The problem is that characters like & and ' have special meaning to the shell, and no matter how they're quoted smbmount has a tendancy to pass them unquoted when trying to mount.
