Shares with spaces in name

Summary:

Help with connecting to samba shares with spaces in directory names.

Shares with spaces in name

superjer2000 09 Jul 2011 01:02

I used the Ease of Use tip to set up some shortcuts to my windows SMB shares. I am having trouble as some of the directory names on my windows box have spaces. I would prefer to keep those spaces as I have other items setup to use those directories.

I tried a few ways to help resolve the spaces including quotes, single and double, using \040 and using \ before the space. When I use \040 it just includes 040 in the path name.

Anyone have any ideas how to include a space in a network share name using mount cifs?

Thanks,

Re: Shares with spaces in name

superjer2000 09 Jul 2011 06:02

I figured out what i was doing wrong. I was trying to include folder names AFTER the shared folder in the network path not realizing I could only go to //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/SHARE … I was trying to go: //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/SHARE/Directory1/Directory2 where Directory2 isn't shared in windows.