SOLVED - Re: [Samba] Windows 2000/2003 shares -> danish character problem.

[Martin Moeller]

Forwarding didn't work. Trying again...

Hello-lo-o All-anybody?-none_I_guess,,.

I have managed to get the 'ø' (o-slash) I need by using 'cifs' to mount
my shares in stead of 'smbfs'. Here is an example:

mount -t cifs //10.20.30.40/data /mnt/Server -o
user=someuser,password=somepassword,iocharset=iso8859-1

(without iocharset you get UTF8, which is fine for the most part, but
not on all systems). Various other options can be specified, such as uid
and gid.
I get many error messages of various kinds if I do not explicitly state
'password=' (on Mandrake against W2K server). 

On SuSE this works:
martin:/mnt # mount -t cifs //w2k/inetpub windows/ -o
username=martin,iocharset=iso8859-1
Password:

On Mandrake it wouldn't work unless I used the IP address in stead of
the NetBEUI name of the server. That stumped me for a while...

This worked really well on SuSE Linux 9.1, but I needed to update the
kernel on Mandrake 10 for it to function. I fetched this one:

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/
i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.6.8.0.rc1.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
(one line)

It is possible that all I needed to change was NetBEUI name to IP, but
the error messages were different on the two kernels..
 
The latest pam_mount works with cifs, but apparently doesn't remember to
add '-lz' to the Makefiles so you'll need to help it out there...

The options to pam_mount for cifs are bugging me right now, but I should
have a handle on that soon.

So, fellow Scandinavians, if you are lacking parts of you native
alphabet, try mounting with 'cifs' in stead of 'smbfs' and see what
happens.

I hope others will find this useful, since I have not found a single
thing out there that mentions this as a possible solition for native
alphabets gone wrong...

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Martin Moeller
Liga LinDist ApS.
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DK-2200  Copenhagen N
Tel: +45 35 36 95 05
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