Odd Samba problem

[Archie Warnock]

I'm configuring amanda for the first time and it's almost working.  I'm 
getting a failure from amcheck on one of the two Samba shares I have set 
up in my disklist.  The only real difference I can see in the setup is 
that the password (in /etc/amandapass) for the one that fails contains a 
# character.  The password works perfectly if I log in to that share 
with smbclient - is there something I ought to know about quoting 
special characters in amandapass?

My disklist contains these:
burgundy /home comp-user-tar
burgundy //pommard/MyDocuments comp-user-tar
burgundy //maranges/PrisDocs comp-user-tar
where burgundy is the SMB server.  When I run amcheck, it has no problem 
accessing the share //maranges/PrisDocs (or with /home on burgundy) but 
fails on //pommard/MyDocuments.  The entries in /etc/amandapass look 
like this (obviously scrambled to protect real passwords):

//pommard/MyDocuments me%foo#bar
//maranges/PrisDocs metoo%foobar
Note that this command works fine:

smbclient //pommard/MyDocuments foo#bar -U me

I'm guessing that the # sign in foo#bar is being treated as the start of 
a comment when /etc/amandapass gets read.  I sure don't want to change a 
working password to get a backup, though.  What am I missing?

TIA

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