Mounting a samba share via fstab
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Thu Jan 10 23:36:59 UTC 2008
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
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