[Samba] Spaces in WinME Directory Names

Eric eric.linux at t-online.de
Sun Jun 2 03:05:02 GMT 2002


Duh.....nevermind.

Turns out there is no drilling down.

smbmount //WinME/subdir1 ~/mountpoint

is the way to go.  Of course you have to set up subdir1 as a share in WinME 
first.

Eric

On Sunday 02 June 2002 12:04, Eric wrote:
> I'm not so sure it's the spaces.  I can't seem to drill down.  ex:
>
> smbmount //WinME/dir1/subdir1 ~/mountpoint
>
> gives me the same error message.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:39, Eric wrote:
> > Jon,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply but nope.  Still get the same error message. 
> > I have no problem smbmounting WinME folders with no spaces.
> >
> > I'll play with it for a bit.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Sunday 02 June 2002 10:49, Jon Dean wrote:
> > > Try
> > > smbmount //WinME/My\ Documents ~/mountpoint
> > > or
> > > smbmount "//WinME/My Documents" ~/mountpoint
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Jon Dean (www.jondean.com)
> > > Dept. Computer Science (www.dcs.ex.ac.uk)
> > > University of Exeter, UK
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Eric
> > > Sent: 02 June 2002 09:44
> > > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > > Cc: eric.linux at t-online.de
> > > Subject: [Samba] Spaces in WinME Directory Names
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I've finally gotten Samba and WinME to connect and see each other.
> > >
> > > On my WinME box I've got the usual My Documents folder which I'd like
> > > my Linux
> > > box to be able to use.
> > >
> > > I think there's a problem with the space in the directory name.
> > >
> > > smbmount //WinME/My Documents ~/mountpoint
> > > 2854:  tree connect failed:  ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network
> > > name in
> > > tree connect.)
> > > SMB connection failed
> > >
> > > smbmount //WinME/"My Documents"  ~/mountpoint
> > > smbmount //WinME/'My Documents"  ~/mountpoint
> > >
> > > all give me the same error.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to make this work?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Eric





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