[Samba] smbclient error: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME, on shared foler with a Chinese name

[Youlin Feng]

Hi folks,

I am trying to access the shared folders on a Windows XP PC from a Linux (FC5) PC using  smbclient. 

Linux config info:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

$ rpm -q samba
samba-3.0.24-6.fc5

smb.conf:
[global]
        dos charset = CP936                                         <--- Simplified Chinese
        unix charset = UTF-8
        display charset = LOCALE

Now, here is the problem: smbclient can list the shared folders, including one with a Chinese name; but smbclient can't access the Chinese folder itself.

The Chinese folder name could be messed up on your display due to either the encoding or the fonts issue. This isn't the issue here.

$ smbclient -L kings-win -U user%passwd
Domain=[KINGS-WIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       远程 IPC
        SharedDocs      Disk
        D_Drive         Disk
        C_Drive         Disk
        我的音乐    Disk                                             <---- shared folder in Chinese

Domain=[KINGS-WIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
$ smbclient  \\\\kings-win\\SharedDocs -U user passwd
Domain=[KINGS-WIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
smb: \>

So far, so good. Now, try to access the Chinese folder:

$ smbclient  \\\\kings-win\\我的音乐 -U user passwd
Domain=[KINGS-WIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

What could be the problem? 

I should point out that this Chinese shared folder is located in the D partition, i.e. the D_Drive shared folder contains the Chinese-named folder. Obviously this is no problem at all, since SharedDocs is inside C_Drive.

Does anybody do similar thing, but with any other non-European shared folder name?

Thank you very much!









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