Why can I connect to Server (command K) but won't automate? NSLU2

Hi all,
I can see my hard drive sitting behind my NSLU2 and connect via a command-K and inputing smb://192.168.1.77/DISK 1 to connect. It changes my "DISK 1" to "DISK%201" with the %20 apparently covering the space in the shared name.
But when I try to use the same for automator, it will not mount the shared drive. Any suggestions?
TIA

1. This is precisely why you should avoid spaces in filenames and odd characters. It makes automation (if you think you might initially do it) more difficult, regardless of the tools. As a rule i use UpperCamel cas on all my machines to name all entities (Drives/Volumes, files, folders, machines, etc..). If i need to separate things more then i use separation characters instead of spaces. These characters are limitesd to periods (.), undescores (_), and hyphens .
2.) The thing is that urls generally need to have the chracters escaped. Depending on the client using the url this one of any number of methods url encoded (%20) slashed (\ ), quoted ("protocol://server/Name of Something") or something else. Normally url encoding should work since its what youd use if you were putting it in the dialog. Since it isnt though i would try single or doublequotes first, then slashes. If neither of those work then im not sure. Alhough and alternative method would be to make a batch script that does it and then trigger that script with automator.

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