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From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses
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On Dec 21 19:11, bartels wrote:
> On 12/21/2012 06:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec 21 18:01, bartels wrote:
> >>On 12/21/2012 05:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>On Dec 21 17:20, bartels wrote:
> >>>>$ net use Q: "$(cygpath -w '//macau/X32 Backup-4(WD)')" "bartels" /user:"bartels"
> >>>>The command completed successfully.
> >>>>
> >>>>$ ls q:/
> >>>>ls: cannot access q:/: Input/output error
> >>>Please don't use DOS paths.  Use POSIX paths like /cygdrive/q instead:
> >>>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32
> >>Naturally, I tried all flavours:
> >>
> >>$ ls /cygdrive/q/
> >>ls: cannot access /cygdrive/q/: Input/output error
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Works fine for me using a Linux Samba share with space in it.
> >>Okay, that leaves the parentheses as the likely troublemaker.
> >>The thing is, people bring in disks, and I have no control over their volume / share names.
> >>
> >>Any more ideas? Where's Santa when you need him ;-)
> >"Input/output error" is just an EIO.  strace might show more useful
> >information.  EIO could be generated for a couple of reasons, for
> >instance, the WIn32 errors ERROR_DISK_CORRUPT or ERROR_OPEN_FAILED are
> >translated to the POSIX EIO.  Another chance to get EIO is if something
> >goes badly wrong trying to read a symlink.  Or, that's always a chance,
> >the OSX smb server doesn't support some system call used by Cygwin.  It
> >wouldn't be the first such FS.
> 
> You must be Santa!
> 
> I did not believe it, but I tried the same share names on a linux server: that works fine.
> 
> Indeed it looks like a cygwin/mac problem.
> That still leaves me with a lot of unhappy users.
> 
> So where can I find strace?

In /bin.


Corinna

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