[Samba] Hungarian codepage problem using smbmount

[László Miklós]

Dear Urban,

That's it. Thank you for your support!

With many thanks,

a very optimistic Linux beginner



Urban Widmark wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-2] László Miklós wrote:
>
> > The most important thing is that there is no difference when using the
> > iocharset and codepage options or when there is no such option at all or
> > when I used ISO8859-1 and cp850 instead of ISO8859-2 and cp852. Why is
> > this? Maybe the codepage files are in a wrong directory on my Linux
> > system? Now they can be found under /var/lib/samba/codepages/
>
> You are missing an important thing, the samba codepages are completely
> irrelevant. Only a few parts of samba is used when using smbmount.
> smbmount is only responsible for connecting to the server, it does not do
> any listings or file downloads.
>
> All the string translations for the filenames are done by the smbfs
> kernel module, using the kernel nls modules.
>
> In order for it to find the nls module to use the name of the iocharset
> and codepage parameters must match the kernel modules (except for the nls_
> prefix). There is no kernel nls module named ISO8859-2, but there is one
> named nls_iso8859-2, so the correct iocharset name would be iso8859-2.
>
> Same about using codepage 852, the proper name is cp852 because the nls
> module is named nls_cp852. The sample values mentioned in the smbmount
> manpage follows this.
>
> After mounting use lsmod to verify that the relevant nls modules have been
> loaded (or have an increased "used" count if they were already loaded). If
> you build your own kernels, make sure you built the nls modules you need.
>
> However, it never gets that far.
>
> Using one of the crontab entries as example:
> /usr/bin/smbmount //KRISZ-K7/AKTUALIS /mnt/winmentes1/aktuak -o credentials=/etc/samba/passwd ip=192.168.0.92 iocharset=ISO8859-2 codepage=852
>
> Why do you have space between the -o options? Where did you get the idea
> that it would work with space? All the examples I know of show how to
> separate options properly using ,
>
> If you have an example of that, let me know so we can correct it.
>
> You could have written goobliglock as your codepage, smbmount stops
> reading after your credentials entry because -o only takes one string as
> argument.
>
> Unless you have a reason to call smbmount directly it is probably better
> to use the "mount -t smbfs" syntax. That will continue to work even if
> smbmount is replaced. But that does not affect this problem.
>
> You should try the following, or the smbmount equivalent.
>
> mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/etc/samba/passwd,ip=192.168.0.92,iocharset=iso8859-2,codepage=cp852 //KRISZ-K7/AKTUALIS /mnt/tmp
>
> I also don't know why you have /mnt/winmentes1 in your smb.conf. You don't
> need to do that for smbmount/smbfs. But perhaps you are doing something
> else there.
>
> Name lookups, logging, workgroup and socket options are used (and probably
> some other settings), the rest of smb.conf such as the shares isn't used
> by smbmount.
>
> /Urban