[linux-cifs-client] Character Set Issues

[Ian Berry]

I am having a problem with the CIFS client handling non-ASCII characters 
from a Windows 2000 server.

When mounting through the Linux CIFS client, the problematic characters 
are translating into question marks (?). Attempting to open one of these 
files results in a "No such file or directory" error.

If you look at the file from another Windows client (XP Professional in 
this case), the character appears fine. In my current example it happens 
to be an extended dash character.

It seems fairly clear to me that this problem problem is character set 
related in some way. The kernel on the client is 2.6.16 and has the 
following native language support options set: Codepage 437, NLS ISO 
8859-1, and NLS UTF8. The 'iocharset' CIFS mount option looks promising, 
but the manpage does not give any examples of valid input for this option.

Even if it is not possible to translate the filename, is there any way 
to read these files?

Ian