RE: National character set and Samba shares

Try to change (or set if there are none) values of server-side charset
parameters (such as "dos charset" / "unix charset") in the configuration
on Samba server you are mounting filesystems from.

Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux
http://www.brainbench.com

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:26 PM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: National character set and Samba shares

Hi There,

My network contains a RHEL4 server that runs Oracle and a few
Conectiva /
Mandriva servers running
Samba. The problem is, when I mount the Samba shares on the RHEL
machine,
it can't display correctly
file names that contain national characters (almost all file names, as
I
am in Brazil). This is
preventing me to deploy a document management system. Swtiching to NFS
is
not a solution for a
number of reasons I can't discuss here.

Man pages describe the use of smbmount switches such as codepage and
iocharset, but whatever
switches I give to smbmount I allways end up getting wrong file names.
Using iconv I found the RHEL
machine allways sees file names encoded as CP850 (DOS code-page for
western european languages). But
using iconv doesn't allows a local application on the RHEL box to open
the
remote files serverd from
the remote samba share.

I need the kernel on the RHEL server (or the smbfs filesystem) to
convert
CP850 received fom smb
packets to UTF-8 names before presenting them to applications, and
vice-
versa. Does anyone knows how
to do this?


[]s, Fernando Lozano

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