X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:23:58 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses Message-ID: <20121221182358.GI18188@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <50D48C53.2080403@mailme.ath.cx> <20121221164750.GE18188@calimero.vinschen.de> <50D495D5.2030104@mailme.ath.cx> <20121221171916.GH18188@calimero.vinschen.de> <50D4A64D.5040301@mailme.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50D4A64D.5040301@mailme.ath.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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