Bug#464828: gnome-applets: drivemount_applet failed to mount a nfs drive

[Josselin Mouette]

On sam, 2008-02-16 at 20:20 +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> 2008/2/16, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>:
> > > 192.168.2.2:/home     /net/maison/    nfs     noauto,user
> >                                      ^
> >
> > I guess this is caused by the trailing slash. If you omit it,
> > "mount /net/maison" should work.
> 
> Indeed it work. There may be something to do at least for the error
> message, because I was really puzzled by the fact that I successfully
> mount it by command line but not by the applet.

It seems that calling “mount /net/maison” (without the trailing slash)
by hand fails.

If there is a bug somewhere, I’d say it is in mount itself; it is not
unreasonable to expect paths to be canonicalized, so mount should
recognize them as the same.

Cheers,
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