[Samba] Spaces in WinME Directory Names

Eric eric.linux at t-online.de
Sun Jun 2 02:53:02 GMT 2002


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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