From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 3 20:07:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD5F106568B for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:07:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF028FC08 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj8 with SMTP id 8so2921452pwj.3 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:07:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ju2tEphAPa740ddKOrczZQy5XfVlxMV+s72NrHwSNrU=; b=K6DXQzjJssnLXoh3VqEWHDEA2YWJd3S1M7n+3mzXe3ddYnUwQ+Bvd0Tm1l35N0xulT RiU7GZU1Ct5wqaBK70Ic6bjSLafYeR9Z8tlThZ9pHih4teHO8h6unPN5O/obdCabD5lw FILsk+pfAjcuFveuSLPWhyh6p1icLRVWBM35Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=F4ElnryNg2K9Q87LGkeFPDwloCb29CLffUBrtlTi1XJvw+1NyIYiH1D5UyL9Ol7v1/ N5rrE9iIcVDn5Gf35Q2Y7/6VYaRMIqnh46aDklYGheEnqTceyZzSkK2pqYNccyXE3BxO E72WbWtFbx1046WQdRDJGNIqNgYSOuSX9EDwA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.119.20 with SMTP id r20mr41577wfc.303.1257278857745; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:07:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091103200202.GA20480@ozzmosis.com> References: <20091103200202.GA20480@ozzmosis.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:07:37 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e0911031207v9aa739aq49e342009f0b0da1@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: andrew clarke Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/fstab + embedded spaces X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:38 -0000 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2009-11-03 06:57:12 UTC-0500, carmel_ny (carmel_ny@hotmail.com) > wrote: > > > I was attempting to create this entry in the /etc/fstab file. It is to > > a WinXP machine. > > > > //user@bios/My Documents /laptop smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 > > > > It fails because 'fstab' does not allow embedded spaces in device > > names, not does it allow enclosing the name in quotes. > > A workaround may be to run mount_smbfs from /etc/crontab (or perhaps > the root user's crontab), eg. > > @reboot /usr/sbin/mount_smbfs -N "//user@bios/My Documents" > /laptop > > or similar. > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > windows path's have alternate eg c:\Test~1 -- Adam Vande More