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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: unable to automount windows C$
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:30:50 +0800
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Ian Kent wrote:
>> May 13 14:43:28 gw automount[15573]: mount_mount: mount(generic):
>> calling mount -t cifs -s -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD
>> //xp0/C\$ /tmp/auto6t8L4W

Ohh, I get it, the "\" is a path separator for mount.cifs and I think
the handling of it may have changed recently ish.

So catch 22, autofs must escaped the "$" to prevent it being interpreted
as a macro and the generic mount module has no special knowledge of cifs
so it can't do anything about it. Worse, since "\" is a valid path
separator for UNC paths we can't just check the fs type and translate
them all. For example, what if we get :\\\\<server>\\service as the
location?

Ian