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

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Thanks for your reply.

I thought the rw option was ignored by mount.cifs? Switched my file_mode and dir_mode options to 0777. Seems to have worked.

I would normally avoid theuse of white space in the path, but I can’t on this occasion as it’s my employer’s share. I’ve tried the following but I still can’t get it to mount:

[Unit]
Description=Project share
After=network.target

[Mount]
What=systemd-escape -p --suffix=path "//wincluster.place.ac.uk/f/share name with spaces"
Where=/data/tux/projdir
Options=_netdev,nofail,rw,credentials=/home/tux/.smbcredentials,sec=ntlmv2,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0
Type=cifs
TimeoutSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

journalctl -xe shows a bad UNC error.

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