[Samba] Accented letters in shared USB drive (was: Share USB pendrive in ADSL router)

[Aurélien Aptel]

Hi Rodolfo (sorry for dup email),

Rodolfo Medina via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> writes:
> ...For example, when I copy the ~/università to /mnt/shared, I get:
>
>  universit\ �/
>
> Or, if in /mnt/shared I do: `touch affinché', I get:
>
>  affinch\ �
>
> I've never had this problem before, in my Linux home directory.  Please suggest
> whoever can how to face and solve the problem.

Assuming your usb key is formatted with VFAT [1], filenames should be
stored in UCS-2 on the key. Let's also assume your linux client uses
utf8 for filenames.

cifs.ko supports transcoding filenames via the iocharset option, where
you are supposed to give the local system encoding cifs.ko should expose
the remote filenames in. This option only works if the SMB server
supports unicode though.

You can try to use mount.cifs .... -o iocharset=utf-8

That being said, I think it's the default so the SMB server might be at
fault here in which case you might get something working (keeping
accepts) using smbclient but it's less convenient.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#VFAT

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