Mounting Windows Shares with Blanks in the Share Name

[Kevin Whitney]

	Try escaping the quotes as in:
	\"share name\"

	Kevin


Steve McClary wrote:
> 
> I am trying to mount shares provided by Windows machines on my Linux
> machine (RedHat 7.0) so I can do backups to a tape drive on the Linux
> machine. I can successfully mount several of the shares by including them
> in fstab, like so:
> 
> //windowsserver/sharename       /mnt/sharename  smbfs   guest    0 0
> 
> But if I try to do this with a windows share that has a blank space in the name
> 
> //windowsserver/share name      /mnt/sharewithblank     smbfs   guest    0 0
> 
> it fails, telling me there's no mount point called "name".
> 
> I tried putting quotes around "share name" and putting a "\" before the
> space - still no success.
> 
> I can do this
> 
> mount -t smbfs //windowsserver/"share name" /mnt/sharewithblank -o guest
> 
> and it mounts fine.
> 
> Any way to cleanly automate this, or do I need to put the mount command in
> a startup file? If so, where?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Steve McClary