[Samba] Can I mount an hidden share?

[Wil Cooley]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:14, Gualtiero Ottolini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to mount an hidden share on windows from my linux box.
> I am trying:
> 
> mount -t smbfs //server/share$ /mountpoint -o username=user%password
> 
> and I get a "share not found".
> 
> On windows I can run \\server\share$ and it works.
> 
> Am I making something wrong? Or ist this behaviour due to a limitation of 
> smbmount?
> 
> Thank you for your help

'$' is a meta-character in a UNIX shell; you might try escaping it
('\$').

Wil
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