[HanoiLUG] mounting w2k3 share at boot

[David Favro]

On 9/22/06, Steve <steve at hivemind.net> wrote:

> On 22/09/06, David Tremblay <david at roy-tremblay.net> wrote:
> > [...] it complain that the line is erroneous

My point made for me once again: erroneous how?  There should be a
detailed error message. [not David's fault, mount's fault!].

> This is a shot in the dark.  Maybe try changing //192.168.0.1/'LERAP DOCS to
>
> //192.168.0.1/LERAP\ DOCS

I had the same thought, but in a slightly different form: the docs for
fstab are silent regarding spaces in the "device name".  It does,
however, indicate that in the mount point the can be escaped with
'\040', so it's a good bet that this will work in the "device" field
as well.  Try:
//192.168.0.1/LERAP\040DOCS    /home/david/lerapdocs cifs
username=david,password=xxxxxxxx,dmask=777,fmask=777  0    0

If not, try:
"//192.168.0.1/LERAP DOCS"    /home/david/lerapdocs cifs
username=david,password=xxxxxxxx,dmask=777,fmask=777  0    0

Still no luck?  Go to the source, find out how it handles spaces, and
more importantly, insert proper error-handling code so we aren't
guessing as to what the problem and solution are.  This is the perfect
example of how low-quality programming wastes everyone's time.  We are
guessing at something which is not a random phenomena: there is no
need to do trial-and-error here.