On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:35:36 -0500 (CDT), Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, johnny fulcrum wrote:
>> rsh $SMB_MACHINE "/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient \\\\\\\\$IP\\\\$MNT 
>> $PASSWORD -U $USER_NAME -W $WORKGROUP"
>
> Egads!  Since you're using Samba, why not just use //$IP/$MNT ?  It 
> doesn't have to be escaped.
> I was going to stay quiet about it, but that's waaay too many 
> backslashes.
>
> Jima
>

Ha!  I wrote this a few years back - I remember having a devil of a time 
with the slashes (don't remember if I could use forward slashes or not....) 
then had to escape each one from the shell !! - the above worked and that 
was that :)



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