Hi Alex

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 03:00 pm, Alexander Samad wrote:
> hi
>
> I am having a problem with a smb fstab
>
> sudo mount -o username="alex
> samad",workgroup="somegroup",password=XXXX,uid=alex,gid=alex
> //someserver/data /mnt/smb/data/
>
>
> My userid has a space it in but mount doesn't seem to like it when i use
> "alex samad" it takes the space as a delimiter.  I tried using ' or "
> even tried using \ on the space, but no joy.  Does any one know how to
> get around this.

One windows share I use has a windows share with a space in the share name. 
Ocatal representation of a space works for me:

\040

so maybe alex\040samad might just work for you..... 

Fingers crossed,

Seb

>
> I have tried the userid and password cause i can run a mount command and
> it works, but I would like to move it into fstab
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
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