On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:05:51PM +0300, Helmut Zimmer
wrote:>
> I'm having some problems with reading files with special characters
from
> samba shares. The characters are for example '?' and '?'
(and mainly all
> umlaut chracters). Before I have been using Fedora Core with ISO8859-1 as
> local character encoding and everything was OK when I mounted the samba
> share using options "iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850" with
smbmount
> (without these parameters characters were wrong). Now that I changed to
> Debian I changed the locale to UTF-8 and since that none of those special
> characters have worked. It doesn't matter if I'm accesing a share
of a
> Windows machine or a Linux machine: everytime the characters are wrong. I
> tried "iocharset=utf8" as option to smbmount but it didn't
help (am I
> perhaps misspelling something?). It seems that there are quite a few
> articles and questions about this in the net but still after browsing those
> I haven't figured out how to make this work.
> So, any tips?
Is this with smbfs or cifsfs ? smbfs is unsupported.
Jeremy.