Escape special characters in mount command

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I am trying to mount a windows shared folder on Mac OSX Mavericks. A simplistic user name and password worked fine

mount -t smbfs //user2:password2@server1.mydomain.com/myproject ~/localmap

On trying out the more valid user name and password I am getting errors that parsing URL failed. The details are Username: mydomain\user1 Password: A%b$c@d!e#f

The command tried is

mount -t smbfs //mydomain\user1:A%b\$c\@d\!e#f@server1.mydomain.com/myproject ~/localmap

Based on what I found, $ and ! needs to be escaped. Need help on how to escape the special characters. Incidentally, using only the username without the domain seems to work in the first case

I see you have escapes (`\`) in the command you tried. What error are you getting? — bishop, Nov 19 '14 at 20:35
Here is the error message `mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and try again: Invalid argument` — Karthick, Nov 19 '14 at 20:42

Longfei Wu · Answer 1 · 2016-05-13T14:01:52.450

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Just encode your special characters.

@ -> %40
$ -> %24
! -> %21

Others characters can be found here: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/urlencoding.php

e.g.

username="someone", password="passw@rd"

Then this should work for you:

mount -t smbfs //someone:passw%40rd@server/path /Volumes/path

edited May 13 '16 at 14:01

answered May 12 '16 at 06:52

Longfei Wu

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this is what worked for me: mount -t smbfs //user:passw\@rd@server/path /volume/path – Has AlTaiar Oct 12 '16 at 04:54

bishop · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-19T21:36:16.707

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Single quotes escape shell meta-characters, a semi-colon should separate the domain controller from the credentials, and can use %40 to represent an @ in the password:

mount -t smbfs '//mydomain;user1:A%b$c%40d!e#f@server1.mydomain.com/myproject' ~/localmap

edited Nov 19 '14 at 21:36

answered Nov 19 '14 at 20:29

bishop

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The single quote and the semi colon are fine but the special characters in the password are still giving the same error message. – Karthick Nov 19 '14 at 21:15
I suspect it is the @ symbol since it is used to separate the password from the server name – Karthick Nov 19 '14 at 21:24
Yeah, yikes. Made an edit, give that a whirl. The next level of fix is not pretty.... – bishop Nov 19 '14 at 21:36

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 19 '14 at 21:38

Use \ to escape special symbols if you want to convert some special symbols you can write additional string, where $1 - is parameter you provide for converting

user1=$(sed -e "s/+/%2B/g;s/@/%40/g;s/_/%5F/g" <<< "$1")

and then you can use " " and call your converted variable like this $user1

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 05 '17 at 19:10

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Might be handy to use nodejs to encode the url stuff:

$ node -e 'console.log(encodeURIComponent("A%b$c@d!e#f"))'
A%25b%24c%40d!e%23f

Decode to go the other way:

$ node -e 'console.log(decodeURIComponent("A%25b%24c%40d!e%23f"))'
A%b$c@d!e#f

answered Jul 05 '17 at 19:10

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 29 '17 at 23:33

Please see https://serverfault.com/questions/309429/mount-cifs-credentials-file-has-special-character, the first answer there worked for me. Basically, you create a file with the credentials and then specify that file instead of your username and password.

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