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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:11:25 +0100
From: bartels <bartels@mailme.ath.cx>
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Subject: Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses
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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?

- bartels


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