"file has vanished" Chinese characters...

[Peter]

--- Tevfik Karag�lle <tevfik at itefix.no> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There is a UTF-8 patched cygwin available from
> http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/download.html
> 
> I haven't used it. Maybe it is worth to try :-)
> 
> Rgrds Tev
> 
> 
> Background info:
> 
>
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/c
> ygwin-20.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00068.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q3/msg00037.html 
>
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=phpwsbb&PHPWSBB_MAN_OP=view&PHPW
> S_MAN_ITEMS[]=396
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rsync-bounces+tevfik=itefix.no at lists.samba.org 
> > [mailto:rsync-bounces+tevfik=itefix.no at lists.samba.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Peter
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:08 AM
> > To: Tony at ServaCorp.com; Wayne Davison
> > Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: "file has vanished" Chinese characters...
> > 
> > 
> > --- Tony at ServaCorp.com wrote:
> > 
> > > This is entirely guesswork, but maybe, just maybe ....
> > > >From something unixy, do an smb mount of the Windows share
> > > (Cygwin does the incredible, but it's still not unix) There is 
> > > probably some kind of option so that you see the filenames 
> > and do the 
> > > rsync from the unixy side.
> > > I think I ran into it doing something with Knoppix and mounting
> an 
> > > NTFS partition with chinese characters in it.
> > > I'm guessing that there is a similar option somewhere on the
> Samba 
> > > side.
> > > something like -o unicode for smbmount might help.
> > > Looks like there's iocharset= and codepage=
> > > 
> > > Good Luck.
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org
> > > > [mailto:rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf
> > > Of
> > > > Peter
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:18 PM
> > > > To: Wayne Davison
> > > > Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > > > Subject: Re: "file has vanished" Chinese characters...
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:27:50AM -0400, Peter wrote:
> > > > > > During a synchronization I get many "file has vanished"
> > > > > > messages; the filename contains question marks.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This cygwin/Windows induced bug has come up before.  One
> > > potentially
> > > > > useful older message:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-May/012638.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > The root of the problem is that Windows is lying to rsync
> about
> > > what
> > > > > the
> > > > > filenames are, and no one has offered some advice on how to
> make
> > > the
> > > > > lying stop (universally).
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > Looks like I'm at the end of the road on this one.  You 
> > would think 
> > > > that we could figure out a workaround.
> > 
> > Well I'm using neither Samba nor Cygwin but cwRsync.  The 
> > WinXP users are initiating backups/synchronizations to a 
> > server at their discretion via a simple Windows batch 
> > file/script.  Although I am using Samba as a basic fileserver.

I'm willing to try but I might have some difficulty with the instructions!

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