Escape special characters in mount command

Question

I am trying to mount a windows shared folder on Mac OSX Mavericks. A simplistic user name and password worked fine

mount -t smbfs //user2:[email protected]/myproject ~/localmap

On trying out the more valid user name and password I am getting errors that parsing URL failed. The details are Username: mydomain\user1 Password: A%b$c@d!e#f

The command tried is

mount -t smbfs //mydomain\user1:A%b\$c\@d\!e#[email protected]/myproject ~/localmap

Based on what I found, $ and ! needs to be escaped. Need help on how to escape the special characters. Incidentally, using only the username without the domain seems to work in the first case

Answer 1

Just encode your special characters.

@ -> %40
$ -> %24
! -> %21 

Others characters can be found here: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/urlencoding.php

e.g.

username="someone", password="passw@rd"

Then this should work for you:

mount -t smbfs //someone:passw%40rd@server/path /Volumes/path