Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses

[bartels <bartels at mailme dot ath dot cx>]

On 12/21/2012 05:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 21 17:20, bartels wrote:
> > $ net use Q: "$(cygpath -w '//macau/X32 Backup-4(WD)')" "bartels" /user:"bartels"
> > The command completed successfully.
> >
> > $ ls q:/
> > ls: cannot access q:/: Input/output error
> Please don't use DOS paths.  Use POSIX paths like /cygdrive/q instead:
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32

Naturally, I tried all flavours:

$ ls /cygdrive/q/
ls: cannot access /cygdrive/q/: Input/output error



> Works fine for me using a Linux Samba share with space in it.

Okay, that leaves the parentheses as the likely troublemaker.
The thing is, people bring in disks, and I have no control over their volume / share names.

Any more ideas? Where's Santa when you need him ;-)


- bartels

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