Re: [PLUG] Extended characters over Samba

[Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com]

"Art Alexion" <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote on 11/11/2004 09:28:41 AM:

> >     >Art Alexion wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> I use é a lot in my file and directory.  Each of the
> >     Win98/fat32 and
> >     >> Linux/ext3 machines doesn't have a problem with files and
> >     >directories
> >     >> created by the local machine with these letters, but when
> >     >accessing a
> >     >> share that contains a file or directory with that name, both
> >     choke,
> >     >> substituting a box or a ? for the accented character.
> >     >>
> >     >> Is there a solution that aids compatibility?
> >
> Sounds like I'm stuck with your solution #1 -- don't use the offending
> characters in file/directory names.  I can probably live with that as I
> have tried to make sure that no files/directories have embedded spaces
> either.

Have you tried investigating different mount options?  Read
'man smbmount', and take a look at the 'iocharset' and 'codepage' options.
I'd hope that you'd be able to use some combination of these to set up
an appropriate translation between the server and the client, though I
haven't experimented with this, but it might look something like

 mount -t smbfs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp437 //srv/shr /mnt/pnt

For some choice of local charset and server codepage.

HTH,
Paul



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