Re: How to pass a password with special characters to Windows? - SOLVED

[zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Lawrence,

With your input, I was able to find the winning combination:

mount -t smbfs //username:****"%5E"*******"%25""%29"@10.0.0.23/D 
/Users/Shared/Windows-D\

To get there, I used the character map in the Windows machine, modified 
to your formatting.


Thank you, sir

Ken




On 1/17/25 4:12 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, at 3:29 PM, zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I have:
> >
> > 1. An Apple silicon machine running Sequoia 15.2, with zsh 5.9
> > (arm64-apple-darwin24.0).
> >
> > 2. A Windows 10 machine with an NTFS internal drive that I want to mount
> > to the Mac.
> >
> > 3. A password on the Windows machine that cannot be changed, and
> > contains three special characters.  The password, with the letters and
> > numbers obfuscated is: ****^*******%)    (all * are either numbers or
> > letters).
>
> What's the third special character?
>
> > This command works to mount the drive, but prompts for the password:
> > mount -t smbfs //username@10.0.0.23/D /Users/Shared/Windows-D\
> >
> > How can I pass the password with the mount command in a format that
> > Windows can read?  The password can be passed either through Keychain or
> > in plain text in the command; but I don't know how to do either
> > successfully.
>
> According to my mount_smbfs(8) man page, something like this ought
> to work:
>
> % mount -t smbfs '//username:password@10.0.0.23/D' /Users/Shared/Windows-D
>
> Note the quotes.  Also you might have to percent-encode the special
> characters ("%25", "%5E", etc.), but I'm not sure.
>
> Is that what you tried?  Maybe you just didn't quote properly?
>
> (It would be much better to figure out how to authorize via Keychain,
> but that's not a zsh issue.)