Hello Andrew, On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:34 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > This setup is working pretty well, however on the NT box there are some > > files with names containing odd characters like accented characters and > > ellipsis. I'm a bit at a loss as to the correct settings of the smbmount > > iocharset and codepage parameters to use, and whether the display > > charset and unix charset options in smb.conf are relevant to the mounts. > > You should use the CIFS VFS for your backup operations, as it will > correctly use unicode on the wire, and therefore allow a correct utf8 > translation. > > smbfs is considered deprecated, and certainly should not be used for new > installations.
Ok. $ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=auser //david-bowie/Test /mnt/tmp Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls /mnt/tmp één document á €50.doc ellipsis zijn heel fijn (…).doc ‘?颂ꋩ?? één document.doc Nogmaals ellipsis ….doc “???????鲂닩? That indeed solves the issue for the more common cases. Luckily in real life I don't have to deal with these cases but what about the below 2 file names? They are printed correctly in smbclient. ‘‰’.doc A 24064 Sat Oct 29 18:57:55 2005 “quotes”.doc A 24064 Sat Oct 29 18:53:40 2005 Leonard. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba