[UFO Chicago] [DLC]allowable characters for group names on Xubuntu

[Matthew T. Gibbs]

Are you using the _netdev option in fstab?  It may be trying to mount the shares before the network is available.

Matt


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>From: Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com>
>To: DePaul Linux Community - Discuss <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
>Cc: UFO Mail list <ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us>
>Sent: Sun, June 13, 2010 10:58:59 PM
>Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] [DLC]allowable characters for group names on Xubuntu
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>Some progress.......
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>For reference, I'm following these instructions:
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>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
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>When I reboot, no shares are automatically mounted. I can mount the windows shares by typing sudo mount -a at the prompt with no problems. All shares are available and usable. But doesn't seem like the relevant entries in fstab are processed at start up. 
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>?????
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>--- On Sat, 6/12/10, Matthew Gottlieb <matthew.j.gottlieb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>From: Matthew Gottlieb <matthew.j.gottlieb at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: [DLC]allowable characters for group names on Xubuntu
>>To: "DePaul Linux Community - Discuss" <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
>>Cc: "UFO Mail list"
>> <ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us>
>>Date: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 11:04 PM
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>>I don't think you can use underscores in network shares in windows.  However, you can use a hyphen.
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>>On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, creating group names to mount to a Windows share and the GUI is telling me I have some illegal characters in the group names. 
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>>>Group names: 
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>>>"music_on_compaqd51c"
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>>>"shared_video_on_compaqd51c"
>>>"software_on_compaqd51c"
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>>>etc, etc
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>>>I used the command line to create the groups, and got no errors but when I used the GUI to verify I did the commands right, I got the error about illegal characters. There are no other error messages, but I'm just wondering about allowable characters, before I create more groups. 
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>>>Oddly enough, Google didn't turn up any results for rules on user/group names. 
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>>>As usual, thanks in advance..........
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