[Samba] Name spaces in fstab

[Urban Widmark]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Alberto Mesas Navarro wrote:

> I have a windows machine named like "computer 1", I haven't been able to get
> it under /etc/fstab, linux complaints about wrong syntax.
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> "//computer 1/myshare" /my/path/ smbfs
> username=myuser,password=mypass,defaults,user,auto 0 0
> //computer 1/myshare /my/path/ smbfs
> username=myuser,password=mypass,defaults,user,auto 0 0
> //computer_1/myshare /my/path/ smbfs
> username=myuser,password=mypass,defaults,user,auto 0 0
> 
> 
> Anyway to get it working?

The problem lies in the mount command, not in smbmount. mount does not
accept space in the "device" part, and \ does not escape either.

If the machine is NT (not win9x) then it should be possible to ignore the 
machine name and put the right ip in the list of options:

//noname/myshare  /my/path  smbfs  
username=myuser,password=mypass,ip=1.2.3.4,defaults,user,auto  0 0


smbmount will then connect to the right ip, but with the wrong name. When
that fails it will try again with the generic name "*SMBSERVER" which is
accepted by more recent smb servers.

/Urban