[RESOLVED] samba national character problem.

[Guest]

Hi,

Transmission made directories and files containing East EU characters in names.
I mount root directory with cifs mount.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.43/nas /mnt/nas -o guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8')

Directories and filenames containing long characters are problematic. I see them, but sometimes they are disappear! And can't read/enter them.

Any suggestion?

Robert

Relevant smb.conf part:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm samba]# /etc/rc.d/samba stop
:: Stopping Samba Server [DONE]
[root@alarm samba]# testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[NAS]"
WARNING: The security=share option is deprecated
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
dos charset = 852
unix charset = UTF8
display charset = UTF8
server string = Samba Server
security = SHARE
guest account = pcguest
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
disable netbios = Yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072 SO_KEEPALIVE
load printers = No
printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = Yes
dns proxy = No
idmap config * : backend = tdb
hosts allow = 192.168.1., 127.
printing = bsd
print command = lpr -r -P'%p' %s
lpq command = lpq -P'%p'
lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
print ok = Yes
browseable = No

[NAS]
path = /
force user = root
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
[root@alarm samba]# /etc/rc.d/samba start
:: Starting Samba Server ')

[Guest]

Hi,

No one else have this problem, but me alone in the word. Probably no interest at all.
Anyway, for me and the history...

The solution:
cifs mount with iocharset=utf8 option.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.43/nas /mnt/nas -o guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8
')

Problem solved.

If some old files -created before mounting with utf8- remains unreadable , just rename them and will be ok.

Detox- is a very good application to remove non utf8 compliment characters from directory and filenames at once.
Detox available for archlinux and for ubuntu repositories.

Robert.