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I needed to permanently mount a directory on a Windows server that had spaces in the path. I also wanted to use a credentials file so that the remote server username and password would not be in the world readable fstab file. The following was cobbled together from: Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs and: Mount password protected network folders Create a credentials file (as root) containing the username and password and restrict it's ability to be read by other users (/etc/fstab is world readable). vi /root/.smbcredentials username=someusername password=somepassword Save and exit the file. Change the file permissions to only be readable by root. chmod 600 /root/.smbcredentials Update the fstab file Add the following line to /etc/fstab (spaces are replaced with \040  or the mount will fail) // ip address / c$/Program\040Files/Microsoft\040SQL\040Server/ /var/backups/Server cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0 Exit and s