[Samba] Question regarding samba 2.2.8a and CIFS

[Loic Domaigne]

Hello everybody,

I have a question regarding SAMBA and CIFS. I have a network attached storage
(NAS) running Samba 2.2.8a with the following setting:

[ global ]
client code page = 850
character set = ISO8859-1

Files with German Umlaute (like ä,ö,ü etc) created from a Windows XP box are
saved on the shared storage using ISO8859-1 encoding. I could verified by
reading directly the disk of the NAS:

[loic at neumann ~]$ ls -b mnt/
A\304O\326\334\334.txt  try_\344\366\374.txt

[loic at neumann ~]$ ls mnt/ | iconv -f ISO_8859-1
AÄOÖÜÜ.txt
try_äöü.txt

which is exactly the expected result.

Now if I mount this NAS using CIFS:
[loic at neumann DNS-323]$ sudo mount -t cifs -o
user=loic%xxx,iocharset=iso8859-1 //192.168.xxx.xxx/Volume_1 /mnt/nas/

Then, the filenames are mapped using CP850 encoding, and not ISO-8859-1:
[loic at neumann DNS-323]$ ls -b /mnt/nas/
A\216O\231\232\232.txt  try_\204\224\201.txt
[loic at neumann DNS-323]$ ls /mnt/nas/ | iconv -f CP850
AÄOÖÜÜ.txt
try_äöü.txt

It looks like that my Linux server is considered like a Windows server. I
guess, this is the expected behavior, right?

Thanks for your help,
Loic.

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