X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50D495D5.2030104@mailme.ath.cx> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:01:09 +0100 From: bartels User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121123 Icedove/10.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses References: <50D48C53.2080403@mailme.ath.cx> <20121221164750.GE18188@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20121221164750.GE18188@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 ;-) - bartels -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple