Hi all, We have a corporate LAN, with users working in Windows XP Pro. I have implemented a Linux backup solution, which uses Samba to mount Windows shares, and copies files to backup directories, which are shared using Samba, so that I can grab backed up copies of files from a Windows client using the Samba share. I'm using Samba 3.0.14a on Ubuntu Breezy (using the 3.0.14a-6ubuntu package). The problem is, we have a lot of files and folders which have non-Latin (Persian) characters in their name. Samba doesn't seem to be able to read any of them. The files' contents are copied properly, but the file names get corrupted. The file names appear as, e.g., "??????????.xls" from the shell, and "_____2.xls" from a Windows XP client browsing the samba share containing the backed up files. The folders, however, will all get copied empty. I mean, the contents of a folder with a Persian name is not navigated by Samba at all. Losing the file names is a major problem, but folders being backed up empty is even a bigger one. To show you how I do the job, here are the commands that I use: mount -t smbfs "\\\\$server\\$share" "/mnt/$server/$share" -o uid=xyz,gid=xyz,ro,username=WinUserName,password=abc rsync -W -r -l -t -x --force --exclude-from=excludes.txt -z --modify-window=10 "/mnt/$server/$share" "backup/$server/$share" umount "/mnt/$server/$share" How can I solve this problem? The ideal solution I'm seeking is the Linux server being ablt to save file names in UTF-8 (which, I guess, should work from Windows side). Thanks for any help! -- Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com