From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18092 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2012 06:26:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 18064 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Mar 2012 06:26:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:26:04 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDrlC-0004Nk-Kt for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:26:02 +0200 Received: from 207.146.akron.net.pl ([86.111.207.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:26:02 +0200 Received: from thorsten by 207.146.akron.net.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:26:02 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00837.txt.bz2 * Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700) > > Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors > while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab. > > If yes, can someone give me some tips for what to do to mount a share named > \\server\~foo ? > [...] > It looks like mount command does not like ~ in the smb share name, though it > is fine with ~ in the the mount point name. That's a shell issue not a mount issue. ~foo refers to the home directory of user foo. Either escape the ~ or quote the argument containing the ~. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple