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

[Youlin Feng]

Well, the problem is the samba-client package I think.

I tried the same test on a FC6 machine and it works ok.

My FC5 has samba-client-3.0.24-6.fc5

The default FC6 has samba-client-3.0.23c-2 and I am even using the default smb.conf setting of "dos charset = CP850", instead of the Chinese charset of CP936, which is a bit odd.

So something is broken in samba-client-3.0.24-6.fc5.



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> From: youlinfeng at hotmail.com
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 07:09:15 +0000
> Subject: [Samba] smbclient error: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME, on shared foler with a Chinese name
> 
> 
> 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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