Re: [Samba] Filenames with "special" characters (äöü€¶) on SMB share of Linkstation HD-HLAN250

[sabine zarabian]

Alexander Skwar wrote:

>Alexander Skwar schrieb:
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>>What I mean with this is, that I can copy/create a file from Linux
>>on the LS called "blöder name" just fine. But when I access the share
>>with XP, that filename is shown as "blöder name" instead. And when I
>>create a file with such a name from Windows, it shows up in Linux as
>>"bl?der name" (that's what "ls" shows - I suppose that's not a real
>>question mark (?) though).
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>Hm.
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>Thanks to OpenLink firmware from http://linkstationwiki.org/, I've
>now got root access via ssh/telnet to the box. In the smb.conf
>of the NAS device, I find:
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>    client code page = 850
>    character set = ISO8859-15
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>It is running:
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>root at HD:~# /usr/sbin/smbd -V
>Version 2.2.8a-ja-1.1
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>To what values should I change that?
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>Thanks again,
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>Alexander Skwar
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Hi Alexander,
we had the same problem. I changed the value  LANG=de_DE at euro and that 
solved our problem.
We use suse linux and I found this setting in /etc/sysconfig/language 
but this might bedifferent in your distribution.