samba - Jul 2004 - Problem with umlaut on windows server

Hallo Samba-users,

I've got a problem mounting a windows-share via mount / smbmount: 
The mount itself works without any problem, but when I try to enter a directory
with a Umlaut (such as "?,?,?") the command fails. All the umlauts are
replaced with a question mark when I "ls" in the directory which
contains the directory with the umlaut.

Changing the character set results in equal problems: 
The umlauts are shown as Block-Symbol (? - if you cant see it: it's ASCII
sign Nr. 177, see http://www.asciitable.com/) but entering a directory works.
Unfortunately any further actions fail, i.e. listing the content of the
directory quits with an IO Error.

Browsing the share with the smb:// tool of the Konqueror returns correct
umlauts, but entering a directory is also not possible.

What can I do to get the Windows-Shares displayed correctly ?

Renaming is unfortunately not an option.

Configuration: 
Client: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0; Samba 3.0;
Server: Windows 2000 Server in a Domain;


Thanks in advance for your help,



Philipp Wei?mann

Hello,
I've had nearly the same problem. I've fixed the character mapping with
the
following entries in the smb.conf ([global] section):
8<--------------------------
dos charset = 850
unix charset = ISO8859-15
8<--------------------------

but you have to determine which charset your unix file system is really using, 
maybe another one could help you to determine *shame*, I've forgotten how I 
was doing that :-(

I also run into problems with umlauts (without samba) using jfs, so I switched 
to xfs and I'm happy with it.

but I think there is no way to avoid renaming of "scrambled" 
files/directories.

manfred

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2004 09:16 schrieb Wei?mann
Philipp:
> Hallo Samba-users,
>
> I've got a problem mounting a windows-share via mount / smbmount:
> The mount itself works without any problem, but when I try to enter a
> directory with a Umlaut (such as "?,?,?") the command fails. All
the
> umlauts are replaced with a question mark when I "ls" in the
directory
> which contains the directory with the umlaut.
>
> Changing the character set results in equal problems:
> The umlauts are shown as Block-Symbol (? - if you cant see it: it's
ASCII
> sign Nr. 177, see http://www.asciitable.com/) but entering a directory
> works. Unfortunately any further actions fail, i.e. listing the content of
> the directory quits with an IO Error.
>
> Browsing the share with the smb:// tool of the Konqueror returns correct
> umlauts, but entering a directory is also not possible.
>
> What can I do to get the Windows-Shares displayed correctly ?
>
> Renaming is unfortunately not an option.
>
> Configuration:
> Client: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0; Samba 3.0;
> Server: Windows 2000 Server in a Domain;
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
>
>
> Philipp Wei?mann