Escape special characters in mount command
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:[email protected]/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#[email protected]/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
Answer
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