How to specify 'spaces' in remote dir and user?

[gio10]

Hi,
I’m trying to mount a windows directory via SMB/CIFS within the WebUI.
Either the directory name and the user name have spaces.

I was able to manually mount it from the command line using the "\ " chars for spaces.
In the WebUI it looks like it needs something different.

Thanks for the help!

Giovanni

[volumio]

Hi Giovanni, try with _

let me know!

[gio10]

Hi,
I think the problem of the WebUI hang is related with this issue.
As soon as I use spaces in the NAS remotedir or user I cannot update the NAS settings any more.
At this point I cannot access to other settings menu, too.

I have found this message in /var/log/php_errors.log

[09-Jan-2014 18:46:39 UTC] >>>>> cfgdb_update(cfg_source,dbh,Array) >>>>>
UPDATE cfg_source SET name=‘PC’, type=‘cifs’, address=‘192.168.1.7’, remotedir=‘Users/Nome Cognome/Music’, username=‘Nome Cognome’, password=‘1234’, charset=‘utf8’, rsize=‘8048’, wsize=‘8096’, options=‘cache=strict,ro,noatime,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777’, error=‘Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere’.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] … : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .’ where id=2
[09-Jan-2014 18:46:39 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function execute() on a non-object in /var/www/inc/player_lib.php on line 460

Note that the _ does not work to replace the spaces.
I can successfully mount this directory replacing spaces with “\040” in the /etc/fstab file or "\ " with mount.

Final question: is there any way to reset configuration from terminal?
If not I need to flash the sdcard every time this problem occurs.

Cheers
Giovanni

[gio10]

Hi Michelangelo,
finally I sorted it out. I did change a bit the php files.

Basically I did:

1. removed the substitution of \ with / (file /var/www/sources.php)
   // $_POST[‘mount’][‘remotedir’] = str_replace(’\’, ‘/’, $_POST[‘mount’][‘remotedir’]);

In this way I can use the following syntax in the Web forms:

Remote Directory: Users/Nome\ Cognome/Music
Username: Nome\ Cognome

2. removed the quotes " from the mount command (file /var/www/inc/player_lib.php)
   $mountstr = “mount -t cifs //”.$mp[0][‘address’]."/".$mp[0][‘remotedir’]." -o username=".$mp[0][‘username’].",password=".$mp[0][‘password’].",rsize=".$mp[0][‘rsize’].",wsize=".$mp[0][‘wsize’].",iocharset=".$mp[0][‘charset’].",".$mp[0][‘options’]." /mnt/NAS/".$mp[0][‘name’]."";

To remove the error
mount: Not a directory

This works for all my remote directories. I do not use path in the dos style with .

I hope it helps

Giovanni

[MisterKrazee]

Would it not be much easier to just remove the spaces from the DIR/Username altogether?

[gio10]

@MisterKrazee

Would it not be much easier to just remove the spaces from the DIR/Username altogether?

This is the music already available on my wife’s pc. Do you mean I should ask her to rename the windows user?
No way

[Stig_Poulsen]

Hurraaaayyyy

Now my NAS disk mounts. I changed the names of the directories next to my music collection to not contain ‘space’.

I mount /Public/Musik. The names I changed were /Public/SharedPictures (from /Public/Shared Pictures) and /Public/SharedVideos (from /Public/Shared Videos).

Stig

[volumio]

Thank you!