Re: Floppy Mounting Problems
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] Daniel González Gasull wrote:
> Brad <lists@anomie.dhs.org> wrote:
>
> > Did you try umounting /floppy? i had this problem
> > when i was playing around with smbmount (stupid
> > !@)#' $(%^&* characters in the sharenames)
> > (literally those characters, especially &, ', and
> > space) and it would fail and leave the directory
> > wedged... IIRC umount fixed it.
>
> Maybe help: Look at the Codepages your kernel is
> supporting. You may need some of them for name of
> the files in the disk. Windows 95 uses some of this
> Codepages. Look at
The problem is that characters like & and ' have special meaning to the
shell, and no matter how they're quoted smbmount has a tendancy to pass
them unquoted when trying to mount.
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