[Samba] Wrong charset on NTFS volumes (ext4 works fine)

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Tue Nov 18 12:39:39 MST 2014


On 18/11/14 19:58, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 18/11/14 18:27, Daniel Carrasco Marín wrote:
>> El 18/11/14 a las 19:05, Jeremy Allison escribió:
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 06:39:55PM +0100, Daniel Carrasco Marín wrote:
>>>> El 18/11/14 a las 18:25, Jeremy Allison escribió:
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:19:31PM +0100, Daniel Carrasco Marín wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, first of all i'm sorry for my english.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've a little problem with samba 3.6.6 and NTFS volume. I've mounted
>>>>>> an USB drive in NTFS format on my server, and all works fine
>>>>>> (characters are OK, i can create folders with accents or ñ like
>>>>>> "camión", "muñeca"...), but when i try to share that drive through
>>>>>> samba, all special characters look wrong and i can't create any
>>>>>> folder with that characters...
>>>>>> I've a lot of shared folders in ext4 and all works fine, so i think
>>>>>> that the problem is NTFS system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tried some options like "dos charset", "unix charset" and
>>>>>> "display charset", mounting that drive with "ntfs-3g -o
>>>>>> iocharset=utf8", CP850... but nothing works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Someone knows how to fix this?
>>>>> Doesn't seem like a Samba specific problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> What locale is set on your shell when
>>>>> you do an 'ls' and see correct names ?
>>>> The ls command looks fine, all characters are OK when i list files
>>>> or folders, even i can create files/folders with that characters
>>>> without problem. The problem is when i share that files/folders
>>>> through samba.
>>>> In locale i've all in "es_ES.UTF-8".
>>> Then you need to look at debug logs. Samba should
>>> be using the same iconv code that 'ls' is using
>>> internally.
>> Thanks for reply, i've changed the log to debug and I've seen that and
>> filename looks fine:
>> pc007.old:  smbd_dirptr_get_entry mask=[*] found _!-UNIDAD
>> H/__EIA-CAM-Planes-Urbanisticos-Inf-Publica/2014/140728 - PE
>> Tratamiento Afino ETAP - Gri*ñ*on fname=140728 - PE Tratamiento Afino
>> ETAP - Gri*ñ*on (140728 - PE Tratamiento Afino ETAP - Gri*ñ*on)
>>
>> I've tried to create a folder too, but here's where the filename looks
>> wrong too:
>> check_reduced_name: couldn't get realpath for _!-UNIDAD
>> H/__EIA-CAM-Planes-Urbanisticos-Inf-Publica/2014/carpeta sin t*�*tulo
>>
>> Why characters are wrong in share?, because it happen in linux and
>> Windows explorers...
>>
> Hi, are you sure that your 'ntfs-3g' has the option 'iocharset=' , I
> checked the version on my laptop and it doesn't show either with
> 'ntfs-3g --help' or 'man ntfs-3g'
>
> Rowland
>
Hi
Strange. Never tried on an all Spanish box but try with: -olocale=en_US.UTF8
Si todavía no te va, pues dímelo y lo probaré todo en es_ES.
Salu2,
Steve



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