Re: unable to automount windows C$

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

Ian Kent wrote:
> Matthew Jurgens wrote:
>> Yes, when you mount it manually you don't escape the "$"
>>
>>> If I manually mount it using:
>>> mount -t cifs -o username=mjurgens,password=parallel12 //xp0/C$ /mnt/C$
>>> it works. If I also escape the $ then it also works
>>> mount -t cifs -o username=mjurgens,password=parallel12 //xp0/C\$ /mnt/C\$
>>>
>>> Was that what you were talking about?
>>>
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>> When I was on Fedora 8 and autofs-5.0.2-16
>> <http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=46891>
>> <http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=46891> it worked
>> Then when I upgraded only autofs to 5.0.3 it was broken
>> Doesn't that suggest that it is something in the autofs code that can
>> therefore be potentially fixed?
>>
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> There is always the possibility of working around things like this.
> But it may not be a simple matter to change this as lot of change has
> taken place.

Maybe we should try a couple of things and see what we get. I don't have
a Windows environment I can use here so you will have to help.

I'm wondering why I need to double escape the $ after looking at your
debug log.

How about commenting out the line "gsub(/\$$/, "\\$", loc);" in
/etc/auto.smb and see what happens.

Ian