On Thursday 10 January 2008 03:55:43 pm Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2008 03:36:59 pm Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:26 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 02:24:56 pm Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > > I have read many google threads and cannot seem to figure this one > > > > out. What I did: > > > > 1) mkdir /media/Music_A-F > > > > 2) chmod 0777 /media/Music_A-F > > > > 3) Edited /etc/fstab and added entry (broken up below but single > > > > line): //server/share/Music%20A-F > > > > <TAB>/mnt/share/Music_A-F > > > > <TAB>cifs > > > > <TAB>nosuid,nodev,noexec, > > > > username=user,password=passwd,uid=500, > > > > gid=500,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0755 > > > > <TAB>0 0 > > > > 4) mount -a > > > > (No errors reported) > > > > 5) ls -ld /media/Music_A-F > > > > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Music-AF > > > > 6) ls /media/Music_A-F > > > > ls: cannot access Music-AF: No such file or directory > > > > 7) umount /media/Music_A-F > > > > (No errors reported) > > > > 8) ls /media/Music_A-F > > > > (no errors reported, listed empty directory) > > > > Anything I am missing? > > > > Thanks- > > > > -- > > > > > > I discovered the problem. It is that %20 (space) that is not > > > recognized and causes the mount to blow up. Can someone tell me how to > > > add spaces in the string: //server/share/Music%20A-F ? What I want is: > > > //server/share/Music A-F/ > > > > ---- > > enclose in double quotes - omit trailing slash > > "//server/share/Music A-F" > > Craig > > That does not work. Mount complains : > + mount -a > [mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad > Any ideas? OK - I finally got it. Replace all spaces with \040 and you are good to go. Sorry to bother- Dan
