samba - Aug 2002 - smbmount: mount option "noauto" causes codepage and/or iocharset to fail

I've been trying several times now:

# mount -t smbfs -o
credentials=/etc/samba/private/credentials,codepage=cp850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto
//machine/share\$ /mnt/share

Causes:

# ls /mnt/share/directory
Sp?rsm?l.txt

While this:

# mount -t smbfs -o
credentials=/etc/samba/private/credentials,codepage=cp850,iocharset=iso8859-1
//machine/share\$ /mnt/share

Causes:

# ls /mnt/share/directory
Sp?rsm?l.txt


I want to have this mount in my /etc/fstab file, but the share won't always
be available, so I need it to be "noauto".


Smbmount is version 2.2.5,
mount is mount-2.11r,
kernel is 2.4.19 with assorted gentoo patches.


Anyone bumped into this before?


PS, not on list.



Eivind

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> I've been trying several times now:
> 
> # mount -t smbfs -o
credentials=/etc/samba/private/credentials,codepage=cp850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto
//machine/share\$ /mnt/share
> 
> Causes:
> 
> # ls /mnt/share/directory
> Sp?rsm?l.txt
The reason is that the mount failed first, and then smbmnt retried it
using an older method where it can't send the codepage/iocharset options.

The problem is that noauto is not recognized by smbmount which passes 
anything unknown to smbfs and smbfs doesn't know what this is either and 
complains.

You can define the default nls modules to use for smbfs when configuring
the kernel. That should be enough for you.


There is also some work going on to fix this in a better way, but the
patches are out of date:

http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/smbconnect/

/Urban