[H-GEN] SMB help please

[Peter J Arnold]

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Just a guess but you might need to escape the "\"s with "\"s. ie try 
\\\\10.4.22.38\\downloads or encapsulate the whole string in ""s

Note: I'm thinking smbclient (part of samba) but your situation may be similar

HTH
Cheers
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> hi guys,
> 
> i need a little help here with mounting an NT shared drive on linux with
> smb.
> 
> i need to mount \\10.4.22.38\downloads  using the username <joe_blo> with
> the password <secret> 
> 
> 
> and having never used smb b4 i could realy do with some syntax to kick start
> me.
> 
> i am thinking smbmount is what i should be looking for but everthing i try
> pumps us an error saying that i have not used enough "\"'s......very
> strange.
> 
> 
> Luke
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