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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject: Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:25:52 +0200
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* Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700)
> 
> Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors 
> while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab.
> 
> If yes, can someone give me some tips for what to do to mount a share named 
> \\server\~foo ?
> [...]
> It looks like mount command does not like ~ in the smb share name, 
though it 
> is fine with ~ in the the mount point name.

That's a shell issue not a mount issue. ~foo refers to the home 
directory of user foo. Either escape the ~ or quote the argument 
containing the ~.

Thorsten


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