samba - Nov 2006 - Windows XP share charset problem

Hello, there


I want to connect to a Windows XP share using the following line in my fstab

\\WINDOWS-PC\SHARE /dir/to/mount/share smbfs
auto,umask=0002,credentials=/etc/winpassword,iocharset=utf8,gid=0,noauto 0 0

It mounts OK but I can't get the charset shown correctly for non-ASCII
chars like ? ? ? et cetera.

I've even tried using cpage=850 option when mounting without success.
I've looked for this issue on Samba documentation but wasn't able to
find an example on how to solve it.

Does anyone have any idea about how to deal with this kinda shares?

T.I.A.
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Linux Registered User              #207262

Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 19:29 schrieb Arlequ?n:
> Hello, there
>
>
> I want to connect to a Windows XP share using the following line in my
> fstab
>
> \\WINDOWS-PC\SHARE /dir/to/mount/share smbfs
> auto,umask=0002,credentials=/etc/winpassword,iocharset=utf8,gid=0,noauto 0
> 0
>
> It mounts OK but I can't get the charset shown correctly for non-ASCII
> chars like ? ? ? et cetera.
>
> I've even tried using cpage=850 option when mounting without success.
> I've looked for this issue on Samba documentation but wasn't able
to
> find an example on how to solve it.
>
> Does anyone have any idea about how to deal with this kinda shares?
>
> T.I.A.
> --
> Arlequ?n                             _o)
> amahoro_AT_adinet_DOT_com_DOT_uy     / \\
> http://counter.li.org/             _(___V
> Linux Registered User              #207262
This issue has often been discussed - but you won't get a fix for it.
smbfs is no longer maintained - use cifs instead, which is the
successor of smbfs. (man mount.cifs)
Please note, that the mount.cifs helper stuff is part of the
samba suite, cifs itself is a kernel module!

Cheers, Guenter