Thanks Brian and Corinna. Jeremy On Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 14:57 Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2023-01-22 12:21, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Jan 21 11:30, Jeremy Hetzler via Cygwin wrote: > >> First, thank you for many years of Cygwin. > >> > >> I'm unable to get Cygwin to mount Windows SMB shares where the share > >> name begins with underscore. mount gives an error "Invalid argument". > > > > Yes, that's actually a bug. The mount code path in Cygwin checks > > the path for being a share (i.e. \\server\share\... syntax) > > > > The code, which, incidentally, has only been marginally changed since > > its inception pre-2000, is expecting that server name as well as share > > name both start with an alphanumeric ASCII char. > > > > That means, right now you can't mount servers and shares starting with > > any character other than [0-9a-zA-Z]. D'oh. > > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/naming-conventions-for-computer-domain-site-ou > > looks like embedded not initial or final "-" hyphen/minus is also allowed > as > well as an initial "_" underscore like DNS names. > > > I pushed a patch and the Cygwin test release 3.5.0-0.138.g6338d2f24a60 > > is building while I'm replying. Should be up in an hour or so. > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved > non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more > to add > mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more > to cut > -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >