Try,

username=MYDOMAIN\\"Edoardo Comar"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to mount a windows-exported directory to be writable when logged in to
> my linux machine with my ordinary user account.
> The windows sysadmin gave me a username with a space in between - this trips
> up the mandrake control center UI tool
>
> Now, if, after login I execute *as root*
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=MYDOMAIN\\Edoardo\
> Comar,password=mypassowrd,uid=501,gid=501 //EMU/VSS /mnt/EMU/VSS
>
> (where 501 are my linux ecomar user uid and gid), I get what i want.
> But of course I'm trying to add an entry in /ect/fstab and forget about it ...
>  if I put there the line
>
> //EMU/VSS /mnt/EMU/VSS smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.emu.ecomar 501 501
>
> and the credentials file has:
>
> username = Edoardo Comar
>
> domain = MYDOMAIN
>
> password = mypassword
>
> I don't get RW access to the share
>
> what did I do wrong ?
>
> thanks,
> Edo
>
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