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:dk1The 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