On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:33:31 +0100 Andreas Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I need to mount a CIFS share (in the end via fstab, for now manually > from terminal) which has both a space and a german umlaut in its name. I > cannot get mount.cifs to mount it, it always complains it cannot find it. > > I managed to get around the space problem in fstab with the \040 trick, > but I cannot find a way to correctly encode the umlaut. When looking at > the output of "mount.cifs --verbose '//server/Täst Freigabe' /mnt", it > looks like it is accessing the correct share, but it does not work. > > I also got a hint here > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-vfs/+bug/414865) to > pipe the share name through iconv, but "mount.cifs $(echo //server/Täst > Freigabe | iconv -t850) /mnt" also does not work. > > What can I do? Changing the share name is currently not an option, there > are just too many users with links/bookmarks to it. > > Thanks, > Andreas Seems like something we ought to be able to fix. Could you open a bug at bugzilla.samba.org, cc me on it, and then post the output of "mount.cifs --verbose '//server/Täst Freigabe' /mnt" to it? Thanks, -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
