[Samba] server not using utf8-mode with Synology client

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:41:24PM +0200, Xen wrote:
> I wrote here how my filenames are getting mangled when getting sent
> or received to the server.
> 
> Server: current Ubuntu lookalike.
> 
> Client: Older Synology diskstation with probably a modified mount.cifs.
> 
> When I send utf-8 it gets received as dos.
> 
> "é" for instance is #c3a9 in utf-8, and it is used by the server as
> #c3, #a9, two separate bytes, becoming é.
> 
> The server is just configured with defaults for "dos" and "unix"
> clients.
> 
> The client tries to use iocharset=utf8.
> 
> What can I do to enforce utf8 being recognised by the server?

Set the parameter:

 unix charset = utf8

in the [global] section of the synology smb.conf.