henry j. mason wrote:
greeting samba.general;
i am trying to set up a backup server to archive files from
a windows 2000 fileserver, and i can't seem to get filenames
containing non-ascii characters to appear correctly on the
linux box.
after some more digging on the web, i found that i need to
generate a UTF-8 character set encoding. by default, debian
only comes with a bare minumum, and the default charset
happens to be en_US.iso88591 - which doesn't match the UTF-8
encoding used by windows. so, to do this under debian (as root):
mpi-images:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
scroll down until you see the UTF-8 encoding for your locale,
in this case, en_US.UTF-8. select the encoding, and choose
'Ok'. debian will generate the locales for you. check their
existence with:
mpi-images:~# locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
then, the magic mount command is:
mpi-images:~# mount -t cifs //YCS1610-767/Jobs /mnt/prinergy/jobs/ -o
username=imageserver,password=xxx,iocharset=utf8
now, when i list that same directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l "/mnt/prinergy/jobs/ System 5 Bearer Bars/"
total 592
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root 537856 2004-01-05 10:24 57686e_f.srd
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root 0 2003-06-19 13:14 Icon♪
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root 32455 2003-07-09 14:05 System 5 bottom bearer.ai6
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root 32242 2003-07-09 14:06 System 5 top bearer.ai6
the stupid control character shows up correctly as whatever
it is. and the copy command executes happily:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cp "/mnt/prinergy/jobs/ System 5 Bearer Bars/Icon♪" /tmp/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
voila!
hope this helps someone else :)
regards,
henry
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