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

[anon80447176]

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

Also, I’ve followed your guide for CIFS shares, but all my shares are mounted with ownership root:root. I’m note sure how to change this. I used to pass the user option to mount via my fstab entry, but it seems to be ignored here.

[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.

[anon80447176]

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.

[linux-aarhus]

Use the result of the command not the command itself as the latter will not work

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

Then apply the result to the 'What* part of the mount unit.

What=//wincluster.place.ac.uk/f/share\x20name\x20with\x20spaces

When you mount you can specify initial preferred permissions but as smb is a reverse engineered Microsoft protocol - it is hacky at best.

Usually mounting a disk device you can get away with using defaults but that don’t work with shares where the server controls what you may or may not do.

With smb - the options - are only serving the purpose of instructing the system - that if attempts are made to write to the mount point - allow them - but in the end it is the server that denies/allows write access to the share in question.