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Cannot mount NFS share (Fstab special character at the end of the mount)

Hi,

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this.
I have read and read everywhere about this issue and cannot figure it out.

I am trying to mount an exported mount

Code:

sudo showmount -e 192.168.1.173

Export list for 192.168.1.173:

/mnt/user/Documentaries (TV)    192.168.1.38

/mnt/user/Documentaries (Movie) 192.168.1.38

In my fstab I put

Code:

192.168.1.173:/mnt/user/Documentaries\040\050TV\051 /mnt/Documentaries_TV      nfs    noatime,vers=3,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0

But it wont mount
when I do

Code:

mount -a

I get this

Code:

sudo mount -a

mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.173:/mnt/user/Documentaries (TV\051

If I put another character after \051 then the next character is detected

Code:

sudo mount -a

mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.173:/mnt/user/Documentaries (TV)test

It seems that the last character is not parsed.

I am really lost here I am hoping someone can help

I would definitely try to use another name, without ( and ).
I cannot see if you have space or tab after \051, I would also try to add more tabs/spaces, probably that will work too.
finally I would try to use ( and ) directly, only space will remain as \040

I tried both spaces and tabs.

In the end I changed the names of mounts.

I went as far as adding a "/" at the end of mount name then I was able to mount it using "mount -a" but it would still not mount at boot.

I checked and it looks like it is connected to the c function getmntent but still could not find how it handles those special characters.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <mntent.h>



void main() {

  FILE *f;

  char *name = "/etc/fstab";



  f = fopen(name, "r");

  if ( f == NULL ) {

      perror("cannot open file");

  }



  struct mntent *m = getmntent(f);



  printf("fsname=%s, dir=%s\n", m->mnt_fsname, m->mnt_dir);

  m = getmntent(f);

  printf("fsname=%s, dir=%s\n", m->mnt_fsname, m->mnt_dir);

  endmntent(f);

// repeat as long as you want

}

and I have no idea how it works on your system.