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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 15:59:45 +0200
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* Daniel D (Sun, 1 Apr 2012 07:49:49 +0000 (UTC))
> 
> > Thorsten Kampe <thorsten <at> thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> > > * 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 ~.
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply, however I still could not make it work:
>     mount //server/\176foo /mnt/foo
> prints out no error, as if everything works out, however
>     ls /mnt/foo

I said "escape or quote":

mount //server/\~foo /mnt/foo

mount "//server/~foo" /mnt/foo

Thorsten


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