From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Jurgens Subject: Re: Can't mount shares ending in $ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:21:22 +1100 Message-ID: <47D616D2.2070008@edcint.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3183768834810601824==" Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: "autofs@linux.kernel.org" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============3183768834810601824== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090302070401050204020904" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090302070401050204020904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Before you sent this I installed the original Fedora 8 release of autofs (autofs-5.0.2-16). I had originally yum upgraded to Fedora 8 and so had installed the latest version autofs-5.0.2-27. I have found that autofs-5.0.2-16 works fine, but going to -27 breaks it. And the answer to your question is: With autofs running - no With autofs stopped - no With autofs stopped and when I mkdir /smb/matthew/C$ - yes Ian Kent wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:06 +1100, Matthew Jurgens wrote: > >> From the debug info, the mount command that fails is: >> mount -t cifs -s -o username=USER,password=PASSWORD //matthew/C\$ /smb/matthew/C$ >> > > Does this command work if you run it manually? > > Ian > > > > --------------090302070401050204020904 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Before you sent this I installed the original Fedora 8 release of autofs (autofs-5.0.2-16).
I had originally yum upgraded to Fedora 8 and so had installed the latest version autofs-5.0.2-27.
I have found that autofs-5.0.2-16 works fine, but going to -27 breaks it.

And the answer to your question is:
With autofs running - no
With autofs stopped - no
With autofs stopped and when I mkdir /smb/matthew/C$ - yes

Ian Kent wrote: 
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:06 +1100, Matthew Jurgens wrote:
  
 From the debug info, the mount command that fails is:
mount -t cifs -s -o username=USER,password=PASSWORD //matthew/C\$ /smb/matthew/C$
    

Does this command work if you run it manually?

Ian
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