How to attach an oddly named shared drive (“Mummy's Drive”) on Linux?

penguin_pam

My son, in his wisdom, has named one of the shared drives on the server as “Mummy's Drive.” I can get to it from both Windows and Android but I can't get to it from Linux.I have tried the following combinations, none of them have worked. smb://cup@server/Mummy's Drive smb://cup@server/Mummy\'s\ Drive smb://"cup@server/Mummy's Drive" smb://cup@"server/Mummy\'s\ Drive" smb://"cup@server/Mummy'\s\ Drive - only 1 quote I can get to it by giving the...

Originally asked by cup on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I can't reproduce your issue so this is a "works for me" example. Debian smbclient and samba-* version 2:4.22.11+dfsg-0+deb13u1. The share is called "Mummy's drive", shared from a Windows 11 Home (26H2) machine called "WINDOWS11" in this scenario. The client is a Raspberry Pi running Debian 13.7 (trixie). smbclient --user chris //WINDOWS11/"Mummy's Drive" Password for [WORKGROUP\chris]: Try "help" to get a list of possible commands. smb: \> ls . D 0 Fri Oct 23 15:33:38 2026 .. D 0 Fri Oct 23 15:32:33 2026 Surprise.txt A 0 Fri Oct 23 15:33:35 2026 62345471 blocks of size 4096. 4714846 blocks available This authenticates the user Chris to the Windows 11 Home server WINDOWS11 and the share...

Full answer by Chris Davies: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1941127 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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