libsmbclient and special characters not in us-ascii

[Richard Sharpe]

I would say that the problem is in libsmbclient ...

I have made no effort to handle character sets ...

Will have to think about it.

Jostein Tveit wrote:

> I use libsmbclient (from samba-2.2.2) to access samba shares, but when I
> try to access directories and files with special norwegian characters like
> «æ» (ae ligature), «ø» (o slash) and «å» (a ring) i get en error. Other
> characters outside the US-ASCII seems to give error too.
> 
> This problem is not present in smbclient from the command line.
> 
> Here are the relevant parts of my program:
> ---
> set_fn("SINGSING", "test", " ");
> smbc_init(auth_fn, 0);
> 
> dir = "smb://snoop/rap/test";
> dh = smbc_opendir(dir);
> fprintf(stderr, "Open %s : %s\n", dir, strerror(errno));
> 
> while (a = smbc_readdir(dh))
>   printf("%s\n",a->name);
> 
> smbc_closedir(dh);
> ---
> 
> And the output:
> ---
> [josteitv at snoop samba]$ ./a.out 
> Open smb://snoop/rap/test : Success
> .
> ..
> h ppsann
> p ss
> ---
> 
> The spaces are actually control characters if i cut and paste them into
> emacs:
> \206
> \201
> 
> Here is the output from smbclient, which displays the characters right:
> ---
> [josteitv at snoop josteitv]$ smbclient //snoop/rap -N -D/test -c ls
> added interface ip=129.241.30.135 bcast=129.241.30.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Got a positive name query response from 129.241.18.16 ( 129.241.30.135 )
> Domain=[SINGSING] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.10]
>   .                                   D        0  Thu Nov  1 00:31:22 2001
>   ..                                  D        0  Thu Nov  1 00:31:10 2001
>   håppsann                            D        0  Thu Nov  1 00:31:10 2001
>   püss                                D        0  Thu Nov  1 00:31:22 2001
> 
>                 63467 blocks of size 262144. 2162 blocks available
> ---
> 
> If i try to access the directories from libsmbclient with 
> dir="smb://snoop/rap/test/håppsann" I get an error:
> Open smb://snoop/rap/test/håppsann : No such file or directory
> 
> Anyone who knows if this is a problem with libsmbclient, or something I'm
> doing wrong?
> 
> Regards,
> 


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