[Samba] Samba and non-ascii characters

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 21:05, jurrie.overgoor at zonnet.nl wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a problem with smbmount. After I mount a certain share, I can not 
> view files with weird charaters in their name. This happends for example 
> with the copyright char.
> After searching with Google I still didn't find an answer. I guess it has 
> something to do with a 'charset' command, but I can't figure out wich one, 
> and what character table I should use...
> 
> I'm using RedHat 9 and Samba 3.0.2a, and I connect to a Windows 2000 SBS 
> machine.

This is due to limitations in smbfs, not in Samba.  Try the CIFS VFS,
for better character set compatibility (due to unicode support).

Andrew Bartlett

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