german umlaute win95 client vs. Linux-Samba file server

[Andy Bakun]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Giulio Orsero wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:10:03 +1000, hai scritto:
>>
>> >On the win95 machine the new added file (or directory) with this
special
>> >characters seems to be good, but when I'm looking
>> >on the linux machine I've file or dir names with questionmarks instead
of
>> >the special characters???
>>
>> I have the same problem. I think this is linux related and not samba.
>>
>> $ echo ciao > aaaààà
>> $ ls aaa*
>> aaa???
>>
>
>I believe this is smbfs related.
>smbclient shows (correctly):
>  åäö-sql.txt                         A     759  Tue Apr  6 16:25:44 1999
>/bin/ls on the same share mounted as smbfs shows:
>???-sql.txt
>
>But on a different filesystem (ext2):
>cola:~>touch åäö
>cola:~>/bin/ls åäö
>åäö
>
>This is with 2.2.6/2.0.3. I haven't looked at all at options to smbfs
>(or smbmount) it is possible that there is something there that can help.

There is a good chance that your ls is by default using the -q option,
which shows ? instead of 8-bit characters.
I believe there is an option to ls to display the filename in their
original form, but that option escapes me right now.

Andy.