Good afternoon. This is my first post to this list. Are there archives for
this list someplace? I couldn't find any.
I am using autofs to mount smbfs shares. This works fine as long as there is
no whitespace in the smb host name. The following command (not using autofs)
works:
mount -t smbfs '//WINBLOWS 98/C' /mnt/tmp
but it appears that there's no way to generate this with autofs (at least
using a "program" map as I require) because the parse_mount() function uses
skipspace() and chunk_len() to determine "what" to be mounted, and these
functions do not allow for escaping whitespace in any way. The debug output
shows "core of entry: WINBLOWS " (i.e. it's missing the second word); thus the
mount fails.
I'm using 3.1.6 which is installed by Redhat 7.1, although I'm looking at the
source code for 3.1.7.
Has anyone worked on patches to allow mounting of shares with embedded
whitespace? (In fact, SMB allows for *leading* whitespace; that's just
plain nasty. Right now, I'd settle for embedded whitespace handling. :-)
Thanks!
Derrell
