samba - Dec 2003 - mounting samba shares on linux with non-ascii dirs

Hi!

I've just searching the list archives but cannot solve my problem with 
mounting samba (v3.0) shares back on linux (RH 8.0 and 9).
Mounting on Win clients works fine and any filenames (including long 
names with non-ascii chars and spaces) are perfictly supported and accessed.

Mounting the share back on (even the same) linux box is a complex task.
I use: mount -t smbfs -o guest //samba/share /path
or adding additional options "iocharset=utf8,codepage=utf8" or other.

1. mount command: do it's job, but hangs sometimes (do not return to 
shell prompt)...

2. trying to access cirillic directories names: fails, but top-level are 
looks normal (not content, but themselfs), subdirs cannot be accessed

3. tying to create cirillic dirs and subdirs: works fine, but only 
within mounted share on linux and looks different in linux filesystem or 
through Win and cannot be accessed.

I guess some problems with charset handling, but i'm trying to use 
unicode anywere.

Any suggestions/help/tips?

--
Dmitry

> Give up on the Linux smbfs kernel module (which isn't part of Samba
> BTW, but part of the Linux kernel), and try the Linux cifsfs module
> instead.  See:
> http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html
Is it possible to build or download the cifs module w/o affecting kernel 
sources? I mean we have strait binary installation of RH9 and kernel is 
the same as in distibution. Or it is really need to change something 
inside default RH9 kernel?
> 
> It may not solve your problems, but if it doesn't you can go to your
> local Linux kernel mailing list, or thelinux-cifs-client mailing list
> for help.