10.5: Extended character set passwords and SMB shares

After upgrading to Leopard, whenever I would try to mount SMB shares on my company's network, the Finder would hang interminably on the "Connecting to Server" progress dialog (the network is Active Directory-based).My password, like many that of many people, contains some extended characters. Today I tried URI-escaping the password, and it worked! I was able to connect immediately to all shares. To URI escape a password, try the following:ruby -ruri -e 'puts URI.escape("YourPasswordHere")'Copy and paste the result in the Finder's username/password dialog, and mount away!
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:30:00 +0100

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