Re: mounting windows shares
At Friday, 14 May 2004, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>Harland Christofferson wrote:
>
>>i googled but couldn't find anything appropriate ...
>>
>>when i try:
>>
>>mount -t smbfs -o <username,password,and rw options> //windblowsserver/backup/system\
>
>>products/
>>
>>mount chokes on the windblows directory "system products" .
>>
>>i assume this is b/c of the space in the directory name. what should
>>i do so i can mount this windblows share?
>>
>>
>>
>
>I just did a quick test, sharing out \\winserver\My Music, and was
able
>to mount it with:
>
>smbmount "//winserver/My Music" mntpoint
>
>(notice the quotes). I tried the mount command like you're using above
>and it failed, but then I don't know the exact syntax and am too
lazy to
>look it up, so YMMV.
>
>--
>Kent
>
>
i am not having the same luck as you are. i can mount to //windblowsserver/backup
but i cannot mount to "//windblowsserver/backup/system products"
i tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs. any other suggestions?
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