I have both set client codepage 850 (Win98SE, I checked with chcp) and I have set character set ISO8859-1. Problems arise when I use a special character in the Win client, like ñ (lowercase n with a tilde), I get a questionmark in Linux The other way around, when I use the same character ñ (lowercase n with tilde) in Linux, then I get ñ (highercase A with tilde and a plus minus character). I tried to recompile kernel and/or add the codepage 850 support module, but still no change. How do you check the codepage support is really active? How should I solve this problem? greetings, René