error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

[Daniel D <ruby_user at hotmail dot com>]

Howdy,

Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors 
while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab.

If yes, can someone give me some tips for what to do to mount a share named 
\\server\~foo ?

Hereâs what I already tried:
   - ls //server/~foo works â prints out the content for the dir
   - editing fstab, and adding
       //server/~foo /mnt/~foo smbfs binary,noacl 0 0
   then doing
       mount âa.
   This printed out
       mount: /mnt/~foo: Invalid argument
   - changing in fstab, from //server/~foo to //server/xyz  -- this worked. 
I.e. mount âa does not print out âmount: /mnt/~foo: Invalid argumentâ, and 
`ls /mnt/~foo` prints out the content of //server/xzy
   - mounting the smb share directly did not worked either. Running
       mount //server/~foo /mnt/foo
   also prints out the invalid argument error.
It looks like mount command does not like ~ in the smb share name, though it 
is fine with ~ in the the mount point name. Unfortunately changing the share 
name is not an easy task, and I prefer making this work rather than always 
using long paths with hard-coded remote hostnames.

TIA for any help. 


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