Problems mounting "My Documents" from /etc/fstab

paul.nel · 02-11-2004, 02:08 PM

I am having endless problems with mounting a drive from my XP machine at bootup through fstab. I have used teh following lines in an attempt to get ti to work but everytime I get teh message "bad line in fstab" when I boot. Here are my attempts:

Code:

//xpbox/"My Documents"  /xpbox		smbfs   credentials=/home/paul/.paulonxpboxpwd 0 0

"//xpbox/My Documents"  /xpbox			smbfs   credentials=/home/paul/.paulonxpboxpwd 0 0

//xpbox/My\ Documents  /xpbox			smbfs   credentials=/home/paul/.paulonxpboxpwd 0 0

What should the correct syntax be?

Thanks
p.n

jazernorth · 02-11-2004, 02:40 PM

I don't know if this will work, but try

Code:

//xpbox/mydocu~1   .....

bnice · 02-11-2004, 03:03 PM

Can you mount it manually?

paul.nel · 02-12-2004, 12:20 AM

Yip, I mount it manually using "//xpbox/My Documents" This works fine, but fstab seems to not like it.

p.n

bnice · 02-12-2004, 07:08 PM

after you mount it manually, what's the corresponding line in /etc/mtab look like?

paul.nel · 02-14-2004, 12:58 AM

/etc/mtab shows it as //xpbox/My_Documents. This still does not work in fstab though. I have however solved the problem by changing my share name on my XP box to My_Documents instead of My Documents. Both my SuSE and rh boxes read the share fine during startup now.

Thanks
p.n

fatman · 05-12-2004, 10:40 PM

the fstab line:

//xpbox/My\040Documents

should work too