Networking Guide
Chapter 13, Configuring the NFS automounter

Mounting directories from other operating systems

Mounting directories from other operating systems

Under certain circumstances, you may have to mount directories whose names may confuse automount's map parser. This is a concern only with servers without a UNIX operating system. An example might be a directory called rc0:dk1; this could result in an entry like:

   /patriot          -r              boston:rc0:dk1
The presence of the two colons in the ``location'' field confuses automount's parser. To avoid this confusion, use a backslash to escape the second colon and remove its special meaning of separator:
   /patriot          -r              boston:rc0\:dk1

You can also use double quotes where they hide the blank space in the name:

   /marbles                          beijing:/"chinese checkers"/marbles