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Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses
Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!
> BTW: Why the insistence on mapping it to a drive letter? Everybody
> always does that and I don't understand why. Drive letters change. Some
> people hard code 'em in their scripts. This is a recipe for errors.
> Other people say sometimes that some Windows apps can't work with UNC
> paths. I don't know of any that have this problem anymore. Q:/ doesn't
> tell me where this directly is located...
Some poorly written software doesn't like UNC paths.
Even Cygwin didn't handled them very good just a few months ago.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 22.12.2012, <18:22>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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