On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:34 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >> FWIW I didn't have to do anything to the end of the file, just remove >> the spaces around the '='. > > If you're talking about entries in the fstab file, as I seem to recall > reading earlier in the thread, I can't imagine things ever working if > you put spaces in the wrong places in that. White space is used to > separate the different parts of the entries from each other, whereas > parameters in a particular part need to be kept together. i.e. The > filesystem options are comma-seperated. > > [device] [mountpoint] [filesystem] [filesystem options] [dump options] [fsck options] > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr > 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > i think there was a change somehow in the parsing of the credentials file as i did not change the file at all upgrading to fedora 9. i had a difficult time but i was finally able to edit the file using xvi32 and removed the trailing dot (.) which is i guess a newline in the ascii world. ghex or hexedit was unusable for me. if you have issues and have something like //IP/user /media/user cifs rw,credentials=/home/user/samba_cred 0 0 in your fstab, do a mount -a -v and see if mount breaks it in two lines, if it does then you have a newline problem. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
