Mounting a samba share via fstab
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Thu Jan 10 23:55:43 UTC 2008
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?
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