Try to change (or set if there are none) values of server-side charset parameters (such as "dos charset" / "unix charset") in the configuration on Samba server you are mounting filesystems from. Alexey Fadyushin Brainbench MVP for Linux http://www.brainbench.com > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:26 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: National character set and Samba shares > > Hi There, > > My network contains a RHEL4 server that runs Oracle and a few Conectiva / > Mandriva servers running > Samba. The problem is, when I mount the Samba shares on the RHEL machine, > it can't display correctly > file names that contain national characters (almost all file names, as I > am in Brazil). This is > preventing me to deploy a document management system. Swtiching to NFS is > not a solution for a > number of reasons I can't discuss here. > > Man pages describe the use of smbmount switches such as codepage and > iocharset, but whatever > switches I give to smbmount I allways end up getting wrong file names. > Using iconv I found the RHEL > machine allways sees file names encoded as CP850 (DOS code-page for > western european languages). But > using iconv doesn't allows a local application on the RHEL box to open the > remote files serverd from > the remote samba share. > > I need the kernel on the RHEL server (or the smbfs filesystem) to convert > CP850 received fom smb > packets to UTF-8 names before presenting them to applications, and vice- > versa. Does anyone knows how > to do this? > > > []s, Fernando Lozano > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
