[Samba] Samba fc3: accent problem - smbfs vs cifs

[Bertrand]

I connect a FC3 laptop to a FC3 server thru samba (+other windows pc).
Thanks to Raúl D. Pittí Palma in this mailing list, I found a solution
to display the non-english characters (é, à, è ...à) correctly in the
filenames on the server. Based on the /etc/samba/smb.conf and
the /etc/sysconfig/i18n described at the end of this post, I have
changed the fstab command line. In some case the accent display properly
and in others it does not. Kind of weird... Here are the test results:

***** if /etc/fstab contains
//192.168.0.4/bg /mnt/serveur    cifs
user,rw,uid=bgirin,credentials=/etc/samba/pwd_bg   0 0

->the accent display properly. It also works without the user option.


***** if /etc/fstab contains
//192.168.0.4/bg /mnt/serveur   smbfs
rw,uid=bgirin,credentials=/etc/samba/pwd_bg,codepage=cp850   0 0

->the accent display properly


BUT if /etc/fstab contains
//192.168.0.4/bg   /mnt/serveur   smbfs
user,rw,uid=bgirin,credentials=/etc/samba/pwd_bg,codepage=cp850 0 0

-> it does not work anymore. In that case Nautilus finds that any
filename containing accent is unicode invalid.

Note that the when the user option is set-up, gnome automatically
displays a shortcut to the mounted file on the desktop.

Anyone knows why the 'user' option influences the character display ?

Why it does that for smbfs and not cifs ?

Bertrand


=========== smb.conf file on the server (fc3) ===============
[global]
workgroup = MYGROUP
netbios name = SAMBA
server string = Samba Server
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 1000
unix extensions = No
load printers = No
hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.
hosts deny = all

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
=========================

============ i18n files on both laptop & server ===============
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="fr_FR.UTF-8:fr_FR:fr"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
=========================