Setting up a windows share in fstab...

[naviathan]

Here's my line and it keeps telling me the line is bad. I had to remove certain information of course.

[thebigslide]

AFAIK, you can't put filepaths with spaces in fstab. Maybe with quotes?

Edit: nope, not even with quotes.

Make another dir without spaces in it's names and make your fancy-pants path a link to that dir.

Edit: nope, that won't help because the fancy-pantsness is on the server. You'll have to use underscores, I guess.

[naviathan]

Unfortunately it's a windows server so I have no choice on the share name, I don't have control of it.. Underscores don't work. No Such Share Found. Is there anyway to put this path name into fstab? I tried quote and that didn't fly.
I fixed the path problem by making a link called /sharelink to the share path, but now it says I need to add a -o to the options inorder to mount with smbfs. You add the -o to fstab and it calls the line bad again. Example:

[thebigslide]

if you can't change the share name on the server, there is no way of putting it in fstab, then, AFAIK. You will have to hack the bootscripts and/or make an alias in your bashrc like:
alias mount /mnt/winshared="mount //ip/share\ name /mnt/winshared -t smbfs -o options"

[naviathan]

Now that's an idea. I didn't think about making an alias for it. Thanks for the info!
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[thebigslide]

Thanks for the tip!