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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
