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Depending on your kernel version, use cifs instead of smbfs. Smbfs is depreciated. Having spaces and evil characters in the share definition is a bad idea. Use a legal share name. The first entry should be the name of the share and not the directory being shared. I'm not sure how the mount command parses the fstab file but it seams that you are partially confusing escaping spaces in bash, but bash doesn't read the fstab file. ( I say partially because the "(" and ")" would be escaped in bash as well. You may also have the share name and comment mixed up. The first field looks more like a command than a share name.
don't know how to alter the share name. the drive is
just named 'Capture'. xp seems to be adding the ' (E)'
to the equation. in any event, i'd be hesitant to
make too many changes in this area as there's a lot
of things already hung onto this particular name.
wish i could just get a way to make the name work,
however xp is feeding it.
Run:
smbclient -L <xp_ip_address>
After authenticating, the services will be listed. I still think that you are using the description and not the name. Use the name of the service instead. I believe that if you didn't manually create a discription for the service, that XP is using the name but adding that extra " (E)" at the end.
Another thing you could do is browse to that host, for example, enter in konqueror:
smb:/.
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