>That depends on the 'native' character set you are using. > >On my Fedore Core 2 system where the native Linux character set is set to >'iso-8859-2' the following in /etc/fstab works wonders (one line): > >/dev/hda1 /c vfat >defaults,nodev,nosuid,quiet,umask=0000,showexec,noatime,uni_xlate,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-2 > >If your system is set for UTF-8 (like most newer systems) then you'll need >to use something else (-o utf8 ?) > >Cheers, >MaZe. Thank you maze. Tru gave me the answer. We should put those mount options for it to work with CentoOS 4: mount -t vfat -o utf8 /dev/hdb1 /samba_backups I have tried and it seems to work well. I did not try to mount an already written FAT32 disk and look for the result but that's my next step.. Regards, Daniel