Mount a Windows path
 

Am trying to do a mount of a Windows folder onto Linux. The path has some spaces in it like //hostname/path 1/path 2/path 3. Anyone know how I should handle this?

You can use an 'escape' character in the string
for example:

//hostname/path\ to\ folder/one/two/three\ and\ four


before each space i've put a slash, this is an escape character.

You can't mount folders, only partitions and filesystem-containers, such as .iso-files, can be mounted.

Tried that but it doesn't work and was given an error. Also tried as per the instructions on this website using \40. This returned the command entered 3 times. When I then check using "df -k" I can see the mount path but only the section up till the first "\".

Please post the commands you are using and the error messages you get.

As stated you can only mount using the name of the share you created on the windows computer. You can not mount subdirectories.

like:
mount -t cifs "//hostname/share name" /media/windowshare

i guess i should have been more specific :P

The whole escape char thing can be used in other paths too, i.e. if you have spaces in a local path.


this page: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to...der-linux.html

gives some examples of some of the options you can use for a cifs/smb mount in linux

can you describe the error you receive ?