Problem connecting to Winders network

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 09, 2005, David Bandel wrote:
>On 5/9/05, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>> Harry Giles wrote:
>> > At my new job, the Workgroup name has a space in it.  (texchine sc).
>> > Other than changing it on the system and everyone's computer (which I am
>> > not allowed to do,) is there any workaround for my domain name, as linux
>> > doesn't allow spaces.
>> 
>> Connect using the IP address instead?
>> 
>> What command/utility isn't allowing spaces? Quoting?
>> 
>> I thought, but never verified, that a workgroup or domain name with
>> spaces in it was illegal on MS stuff. Especially considering that a
>> domain name automatically becomes the Internet domain name with a .com
>> or such appended to it. You might want to open a dialog with the
>> clueless goober that named a workgroup with spaces in it.
>> 
>
>In case you hadn't noticed, M$ drone==clueless goober.  They teach you
>to put spaces in file names, even allowed it in M$Mail (which is why
>many folks had problems when they connected to the Internet and tried
>to send mail.
>
>In all OS except Windoze, space/tab/newline == argument separator.  I
>have no idea how Windoze knows that cd.. (not there are no spaces)
>knows that means go up a directory as opposed to being a command name
>that contains two dots.

There was a time when Linux modules directories contained whitespace which
caused some nasty problems with early versions of Caldera's routines to
generate the initrd files for booting because the mkinitrd shell script
didn't properly quote arguments.

More recently, I've heard that Apple had a major problem with one of their
on-line updates when a script didn't quote whitespace in the update
scripts.

Any time one is working with networks containing Windows or Mac systems,
it's mandatory to assume that file and directory names contain whitespace,
and deal with it appropriately.  This is why the gnu find command has the
``-print0'' option and xargs has ``-0''.

Bill
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