[Samba] Spaces in WinME Directory Names

Eric eric.linux at t-online.de
Sun Jun 2 02:25:02 GMT 2002


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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