[Samba] smbmount codepage/iocharset settings vs NT4

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:58 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in the process of setting up a backup server for a somewhat
> antiquated NT4 server. Backup server is CentOS-4 (~ RHEL-4),
> kernel-2.6.9-11.EL, samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E, rsync-2.6.3-1,
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8. NT4 shares are mounted on the server and rsynced to
> local disk.
> 
> This setup is working pretty well, however on the NT box there are some
> files with names containing odd characters like accented characters and
> ellipsis. I'm a bit at a loss as to the correct settings of the smbmount
> iocharset and codepage parameters to use, and whether the display
> charset and unix charset options in smb.conf are relevant to the mounts.

You should use the CIFS VFS for your backup operations, as it will
correctly use unicode on the wire, and therefore allow a correct utf8
translation.

smbfs is considered deprecated, and certainly should not be used for new
installations. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc.        http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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