samba - Jun 2017 - Accented letters in shared USB drive (was: Share USB pendrive in ADSL router)

Hi all.

I'm new to use of Samba.  I plugged a USB pendrive into router but don't
know
how to mount it.  Please help whoevere can.

Thanks in advance,

Rodolfo

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:
> I'm new to use of Samba.  I plugged a USB pendrive into router but
don't know
> how to mount it.  Please help whoevere can.

I did:

$ smbclient -L 192.168.1.1
WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
Enter rodolfo's password: 
Connection to 192.168.0.1 failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)

and also:

# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/USB_Storage /mnt/public --verbose -o guest
mount.cifs kernel mount options:
ip=192.168.1.1,unc=\\192.168.1.1\USB_Storage,user=,pass=********
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rodolfo

On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:45:38 +0100
Rodolfo Medina via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm new to use of Samba.  I plugged a USB pendrive into router but
> > don't know how to mount it.  Please help whoevere can.
> 
> 
> I did:
> 
> $ smbclient -L 192.168.1.1
> WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
> Enter rodolfo's password: 
Just press enter here
> Connection to 192.168.0.1 failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)
> 
> and also:
> 
> # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/USB_Storage /mnt/public --verbose -o
> guest mount.cifs kernel mount options:
> ip=192.168.1.1,unc=\\192.168.1.1\USB_Storage,user=,pass=********
> mount error(115): Operation now in progress
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
> 
> Any suggestions?
You could try doing what it says, run 'man mount.cifs', or you could
try it like this:

mkdir /mnt/cifs
mount.cifs //192.168.1.1/USB_Storage /mnt/cifs

Rowland

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:
> I'm new to use of Samba.  I plugged a USB pendrive into router but
don't know
> how to mount it.  Please help whoevere can.
Finally I solved it.

First of all, I had to set the USB drive as a `Managed partition' from the
router web GUI.  Secondly, its right address was `//192.168.1.2/Shared' and
not
`//192.168.1.1/USB_storage'.  With these corrections, and the following
line:

 //192.168.1.2/Shared /mnt/shared cifs rw,user,noauto       0       0

in /etc/fstab, I can now properly mount the USB derive as a normal user simply
with:

 $ mount /mnt/shared

and hitting `Enter' when prompted for password.

Now, the problem is about latin accented characters such as bontà, perché,
ragù, ecc...  in file names on command line.  In my home directory I have many
files such named, but when I want to copy them into the vfat shared USB driver
there are encoding problems: those characters are messing and `Bad file
decriptor' error messages sometimes appear.

...For example, when I copy the ~/università to /mnt/shared, I get:

 universit\ �/

Or, if in /mnt/shared I do: `touch affinché', I get:

 affinch\ �

I've never had this problem before, in my Linux home directory.  Please
suggest
whoever can how to face and solve the problem.

Thanks,

Rodolfo

Hi Rodolfo (sorry for dup email),

Rodolfo Medina via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
writes:
> ...For example, when I copy the ~/università to /mnt/shared, I get:
>
>  universit\ �/
>
> Or, if in /mnt/shared I do: `touch affinché', I get:
>
>  affinch\ �
>
> I've never had this problem before, in my Linux home directory.  Please
suggest
> whoever can how to face and solve the problem.
Assuming your usb key is formatted with VFAT [1], filenames should be
stored in UCS-2 on the key. Let's also assume your linux client uses
utf8 for filenames.

cifs.ko supports transcoding filenames via the iocharset option, where
you are supposed to give the local system encoding cifs.ko should expose
the remote filenames in. This option only works if the SMB server
supports unicode though.

You can try to use mount.cifs .... -o iocharset=utf-8

That being said, I think it's the default so the SMB server might be at
fault here in which case you might get something working (keeping
accepts) using smbclient but it's less convenient.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#VFAT

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