How do I mount a share with a space in the name

[linux-aarhus]

@anon80447176

How would you mount a network share that contains a space in the path?

I consequently avoid non ascii characters - but you may be able to use what @FadeMind commented on the old forum

@linux-aarhus

Don’t use a dash - in your path because a dash refer to a new branch on the folder tree and this will break the naming of the mount/automount file

• Invalid /data/home-backup
• Valid /data/home_backup
• Valid /data/home\x2dbackup

To get the correct name for your mount/automount filename when you use dashes in your folder-naming

$ systemd-escape -p --suffix=mount "/data/home-backup"
data/home\x2dbackup.mount

Avoid non ascii with shares - but that said it could be that systemd-escape is capable of creating the correct naming - you would have to try it though.

$ systemd-escape -p "share name with spaces"
share\x20name\x20with\x20spaces

@anon80447176

but all my shares are mounted with ownership root:root

@linux-aarhus

Options=_netdev,iocharset=utf8,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,user=$SMBUSER,password=$SMBPASS,workgroup=$WORKGROUP

The user is one part of the credentials to access the share and under Linux permissions are either no access, read or read/write.

When you mount using fstab or systemd the mount is created by root - thus making the content served from the remote share owned by root.

To tell systemd the particular share is writable you use the file_mode and dir_mode options.