samba - Oct 2001 - unicode characters

Hi,

I've got a problem. I need to read files on a Windows NT box, but the
file and directoriy-names contain special characters so I can't read
them. The special characters include the copyright (c) sign, and the
"dot" (ascii 007 ?) used by Macintosh clients. I've tried both
mounting
the filesystem and using smbclient. I realize that "character set" and
"client code page" deals with these kind of issues when having clients
writing files onto a samba server, but what parameters does the same
when connecting to a windows share using samba? Thanks very much for any
help!

Kind regards,
Niclas Domack


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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Niclas Domack wrote:
> "dot" (ascii 007 ?) used by Macintosh clients. I've tried
both mounting
> the filesystem and using smbclient. I realize that "character
set" and
> "client code page" deals with these kind of issues when having
clients
> writing files onto a samba server, but what parameters does the same
> when connecting to a windows share using samba? Thanks very much for any
AFAIK those settings control smbclient behaviour as well. For smbmount you 
want the iocharset & codepage settings (and the matching kernel nls 
modules compiled). Details in the smbmount manpage.

smbfs does not support unicode (yet, and I don't know if smbclient does) 
so you may still have trouble there.

/Urban