Since you seem to be good with challenges, would you care to try one? The short version is that I can't automount a share on a windows server from samba if the machine name has a hyphen in it or if the password has a space in it. This is from a message I posted previously but got no response to:
i seem to be having trouble with certain characters in machine names and passwords. specifically, there is a hyphen in on of the server's names. this entry in the fstab file fails to connect with the following error: # mount /root/it-blackbox/c\$/ Password: Anonymous login successful 18867: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) SMB connection failed the line from fstab is: //it-blackbox/c$ /root/it-blackbox/c$ smbfs noauto,credentials=/root/.smbauth 0 0 the .smbauth file contents are: username = administrator workgroup = mcstamp this work correctly for another share on a machine without the hyphen in the name on the same domain. the other problem i have is that the password has a space in it, and I can't seem to get the password to work using quotes or using the backslash. this forces me to do an interactive mount (yes, i know i have it set to noauto for interactive. that is because it fails the password and i have to do it manually anyway. i don't want it to sit and wait for the password during bootup.) HELP!!! -----Original Message----- From: torge husfeldt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 04:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] higher ascii characaters in smbusers, success! Hi list, Update: originally i wanted to post a question, but in writing i thought of things that finally led me to the solution. This i wanted to share with the community in case it can help. Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I had no luck searching for it. I have a working Samba 2.2.5 installation on SuSE8.1. I have two users on a windows client called Torge (that's me) and Ga&ediaresis;lle (interpreted as HTML special character) You could also write Ga\"elle (TeX convention), but fact is: there is a higher ascii character in the name, that i prefer not to get rid of. I have users for the same two persons on the server called: toh and: gab my smbusers file reads something like this: toh = torge gab = gaelle ga?lle I (toh=torge) can log on impeccably to the server, while my partner (gab=gaelle) is blocked. The log says: [2003/09/29 11:57:18, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(545) Couldn't find user 'ga211lle' in passdb. Where the 211 is written in reverse graphics. Now my question is: what should i put in the place of the question mark in my smbusers file? Thanks in advance, Torge P.S.: Answer: with some cat'ing and >>'ing i managed to put the exact character from the log into the smbusers and it worked. Note though that just less'ing and copying into vi with the mouse would not work. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba