Greetings to the list, This is my first posting, so bear with me, please. I am running SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.1.3, locale el_GR.UTF-8 and samba 3.0.0 from SuSE, and am trying to mount a share from a XP machine with Greek filenames. As you can see below mounting without any parameters (samba 3 is supposed to support Unicode right away) does not produce any readable output. using parameters iocharset=utf-8 or iocharset=ISO8859-7 is as unreadable but different... However, I also use smb4k as KDE frontend for mounting. There the mounts also fail, but when I choose "preview share" (instead of mount ) I can see a directory listing in a KDE window with correct Greek filenames. subsequent mounts fail again. Any ideas or proposals? Kostas -------- mounting smbmount //PEGASUS/SharedDocs ./SharedDocs gives the following when calling > ls SharedDocs : ?? ??????? ? ? ???:2310??:03c0 ? ?? ??:0393??? ??????:20a7??? ???????? ?. 2.4 ?. 78.doc desktop.ini ?? ??? ???:0393?? ???????? ? 2.4 ?. 78.doc ellinika :03b4?? ??:2310???? ?:03b1??????.doc image-test.partimg.gz.000 ?:03c0??? ??????:03c0?.doc partimage-0.6.1-i386-bootcd-3.img ????:03c3:03b1:2310:20a7 ?:03b1??????.doc Repaired_?:03c0??? ??????:03c0?.doc ?????? ????:03c3? ?:03b1?????? b.doc st ?????? ????:03c3? ?:03b1??????.xml stinger.exe ?:03c3?:20a7:2310:20a7 ?:03b1??????.doc VIAHyperion4in1449vp2 ????. ?_????. ?????:20a7.doc xena ?????.???? ??:20a7??.doc XPPROOFF.GHO and mounting like: smbmount //PEGASUS/SharedDocs ./SharedDocs -o "iocharset=ISO8859-7,uid=kongeo,gid=kongeo,fmask=664,dmask=775" or smbmount //PEGASUS/SharedDocs ./SharedDocs -o "iocharset=utf-8,uid=kongeo,gid=kongeo,fmask=664,dmask=775" gives with ls in a UTF-8 console: ? ??????? ??? st ?? ???? ????? ???????? ? 2.4 ?. 78.doc stinger.exe ??????? ?????? ?????? b.doc VIAHyperion4in1449vp2 desktop.ini xena ??? ????????.doc ??????? ?????? ??????.xml ?????. ?_????. ?????.doc XPPROOFF.GHO ?????? ??????.doc ???? ??????.doc ellinika ?? ????? ??? image-test.partimg.gz.000 ???? ????? ??????.doc partimage-0.6.1-i386-bootcd-3.img ?? ????? ?????????? ???????? ?. 2.4 ?. 78.doc Repaired_??? ????????.doc ?????.???? ???????.doc