Re: CIFS problem with Umlaute in filename on Fedora Core 5

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Hi Loic,

Loic Domaigne wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> I am facing some issues with CIFS and german character encoding for file names
> under Fedora Core 5.
> 
> I have a NAS storage (DNS-323) running an embedded Linux with samba. This
> device is able to support Western European encoding, which is set in the
> smb.conf as follows:
> 
> [ global ]
> client code page = 850
> character set = ISO8859-1
> ...
> 
>>From my wife's laptop running Windows XP, file names with Umlaute äöü etc. are
> correctly shown. However, if I map the same drive under Fedora Core 5, the
> filenames with Umlaute are shown as strange ? combination:
> 
> # mount -t cifs -o username=antje%xxx,iocharset=iso8859-1 //<IP>/Volume_1/LaptopAntje /mnt/nas
> # ls /mnt/nas/
>   hmm ?.txt  ?h?.txt  PICT3303.JPG
> 
> For instance ?h?.txt should be ähö.txt.
> 
> I have tried to set the locale to de_DE.ISO-8859-1, but no avail.
> # export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1
> # ls /mnt/nas/
>   hmm .txt  ?h?.txt  PICT3303.JPG
> 
> Even more interesting, the same file names are correctly shown under
> konqueror using the smb:// mapping.
> 
> Could someone point me what I am doing wrong? Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 

what is the content of yout $LANG variable? Could you try to unset it
and then ls the directory again? Also there is a mount option called
iocharset. Maybe this will help.

Alex
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