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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:38:00 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Difficulties with samba usernames with spaces + patch
Message-ID:  <1191515880.1475.80.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20071004101928.N3843@wonkity.com>
References:  <1191507549.1475.69.camel@localhost> <20071004101928.N3843@wonkity.com>

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On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:24 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Tom Evans wrote:
>=20
> > I'm trying to enter into my fstab an entry to mount a SMB resource, but
> > I'm hitting a problem as my provided username has a space in the name.
>=20
> > This is perfectly fine on the command line, as one can quote the
> > required arguments when needed, but it seems impossible in fstab.
> > When mounted, mount -p is supposed to output the mounts in fstab(5)
> > format, but the output for samba mounts mounted with usernames with
> > spaces in does not work correctly.
> >
> > None of these work:
> >
> > //razor/it /mnt/it  smbfs rw,noauto,-U=3D"Tom Evans"  0   0
> > //Tom Evans@razor /mnt/it smbfs rw,noauto 0 0
>=20
> Worth trying:
>=20
>    //Tom\ Evans@razor /mnt/it smbfs rw,noauto 0 0
>=20
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Ack, thought I'd mentioned all the combos I'd tried; no, unfortunately,
that doesn't work either. I believe (haven't had a chance to seriously
look at any code, only at lunch) that it is parsed solely on whitespace.

Thanks anyways

Tom

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