smbmount and "canonicalized pathnames"?

[daniel.jarboe at custserv.com]

> I'm trying to figure out why Windows can access shares with
> Japanese names, but smbmount can't.

Though it does not answer your questions, have you ruled out
using cifs vfs instead?

http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html

~ Daniel