[Wylug-help] smb mount help please

[David Whiteley]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:25 +0000, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> Is there a typo "\" after staff7??
> 

I presume that this is necessary to excape the "$" which would otherwise
be indicating a variable value. 

Dave
 

> On Mon, 20 Feb, David Whiteley wrote:
> > Morning All,
> > 
> > Can I have some help please.  I can map a windows share using Konqueror
> > with the UNC 
> > 
> >    smb://fp1file.ds.leeds.ac.uk/staff7$/eendlw
> > 
> > I would like to mount it using smbmount.  How do I translate the
> > above?  
> > 
> >    mount -t smbfs '//fp1file.ds.leeds.ac.uk/staff7\$/eendlw' \
> >     /mnt/iss -o username=eendlw
> > 
> > generates 
> >  ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid share name)
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> 
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