National character set and Samba shares

[A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru]

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 at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of fernando at lozano.eti.br
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:26 PM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> 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
> 
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