error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

[Daniel D]

Howdy,

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 ?

Here’s what I already tried:
    - ls //server/~foo works – prints out the content for the dir
    - editing fstab, and adding
        //server/~foo /mnt/~foo smbfs binary,noacl 0 0
    then doing
        mount –a.
    This printed out
        mount: /mnt/~foo: Invalid argument
    - changing in fstab, from //server/~foo to //server/xyz  -- this worked. 
I.e. mount –a does not print out ‘mount: /mnt/~foo: Invalid argument’, and 
`ls /mnt/~foo` prints out the content of //server/xzy
    - mounting the smb share directly did not worked either. Running
        mount //server/~foo /mnt/foo
    also prints out the invalid argument error.
It looks like mount command does not like ~ in the smb share name, though it 
is fine with ~ in the the mount point name. Unfortunately changing the share 
name is not an easy task, and I prefer making this work rather than always 
using long paths with hard-coded remote hostnames.

TIA for any help. 


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Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

[Thorsten Kampe]

* 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


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Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

[Daniel D]

> Thorsten Kampe <thorsten <at> thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> 
> > 
> > * 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 ~.

Hi Thorsten,

Thank you for the quick reply, however I still could not make it work:
    mount //server/\176foo /mnt/foo
prints out no error, as if everything works out, however
    ls /mnt/foo
errors out with 'no such file or directory'.
From my experiments, the mount is not performed successfully in spite of
no errors printed out. The mount commands succeeds only because
//server/\176foo path is interpreted as //server/176foo; and since it is not
checked for existence, doing the subsequent ls /mnt/foo prints out
the error.

Moreover, in the same shell (bash/mintty), this works:
    ls //server/~foo
(returns the right set of files), so if this is truly a shell issue,
why does ls work?
As a side note, ls //server/\176foo does not work (prints out 'No such file
or directory').

If you (or anyone else) have any other ideas, I would appreciate it.
Lastly, has anyone tried this and got it to work on their machine using the
current cygwin version? If yes, can you please post your exact 
fstab entry (or mount command)?

BTW, the mount version I'm using is 1.7.11 (I updated cygwin couple of days
ago).

TIA,
Daniel



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Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Daniel D (Sun, 1 Apr 2012 07:49:49 +0000 (UTC))
> 
> > Thorsten Kampe <thorsten <at> thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> > > * 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 ~.
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply, however I still could not make it work:
>     mount //server/\176foo /mnt/foo
> prints out no error, as if everything works out, however
>     ls /mnt/foo

I said "escape or quote":

mount //server/\~foo /mnt/foo

mount "//server/~foo" /mnt/foo

Thorsten


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