[tlug] smbfs & kana/kanji

[Neil Bortnak <nbortnak@example.com>]

Hi everyone,

I didn't see this on the list archives (for the last 2 years) so here
goes:

I have a debian linux box and I am trying to connect it to the local
windows 2000/Net Appliance NetFiler based network. I am totally unable
to get smbmount/smbfs to access the shares so that the kana is visible.
The characters always come in as question marks. I have tried samba
2.2.8a (which seems to only have japanese support for being a server and
not a client) and 3.0beta2 which supposedly has support but I'm not
entirely sure.

I have tried every combination of the unicode, iocharset and codepage
options with every combination of the utf8, sjis, utc-jp and cp932
arguments. Even the combinations that made no sense. I have also tried
every reasonable combination of smb.conf options along the code page and
unicode lines. I'm pretty sure these binaries also incorporate the
unicode negotiation patch.

All I want in the world is to be able to list files on all the servers
so that I can check for filesystem namespace collisions in preparation
for an upcoming merge. I don't even care if I get the kana; a hex
representation would be fine. Needless to say, you get a lot of
namespace collisions when your program thinks half of all characters are
a '?'.

I also tried cygwin under Win2K (which shows the kana properly) but it
was the same. I also checked a packet dump from ethereal and it started
off with unicode negotiation but fell back to ascii when I was
transferring file lists. During that test I discovered that the server
itself was sending the question marks. Another issue may be lack of
terminal support. I'm using konsole. Finally I have been working only
with the NetFiler up to this point, but I have to make it work or come
up with a work around.

Any ideas?

Neil

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