Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[Dareus]

What's the model number of your time capsule? Have you checked to see if there are any firmware updates for it? NAS devices with old firmware and/or old Samba support have been the single biggest headache for me in this thread ... lol.

Edit:
Are there any Windows Vista or Win7 machines that access this Timecapsule device?

1. No newer firmware: I've already looked for that...

2. No, I use it only with my laptop (which is a dual boot with winXP, with whom the Timecapsule works just fine except for unicode...)

[dmizer]

No, I use it only with my laptop (which is a dual boot with winXP, with whom the Timecapsule works just fine except for unicode...)

You may check this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1083

I believe that fix is only related to Vista and Win7, but I don't currently have any Windows machines on my network for testing and it's about the only idea I have left for you at this point.

[swatsbiz]

Here's my new fstab line:

//mss-014588/church /media/Church cifs user=david,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,nounix,nobrl,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Ans still getting "only root can mount" error

[dmizer]

Ans still getting "only root can mount" error

As I said before, this is not an error. This is a notification. Try running this command in the terminal:

sudo mount -a

[stylofone]

Thank you for these very thoughful instructions. Unfortunately, I have found this general area of Ubuntu so annoying and fiddly that it has repeatedly made me give up on the whole thing and return to Windows, with its comparatively elegant 'map network drive' drop-down menu.

[swatsbiz]

david@david-desktop:~$ sudo mount -a
[sudo] password for david: 
Password: 
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
david@david-desktop:~$

And still I get:

mount: only root can mount //mss-014588/church on /media/Church

[dmizer]

Thank you for these very thoughful instructions. Unfortunately, I have found this general area of Ubuntu so annoying and fiddly that it has repeatedly made me give up on the whole thing and return to Windows, with its comparatively elegant 'map network drive' drop-down menu.

Have you seen: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1186877 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1169149 both of which work more like your Windows shares do

This howto is geared to Linux style mounts. I wrote it this way so that it can work across the multiple environments that Ubuntu supports (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu etc). I did not write it because it was the only way you could mount shares in Linux. It does have some advantages and disadvantages. Some people feel that one of the disadvantages is that it requires some CLI use.

david@david-desktop:~$ sudo mount -a
[sudo] password for david: 
Password: 
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
david@david-desktop:~$

And still I get:

mount: only root can mount //mss-014588/church on /media/Church

Please post the output of:

sudo iptables -L

[swatsbiz]

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

[Dareus]

You may check this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1083

I believe that fix is only related to Vista and Win7, but I don't currently have any Windows machines on my network for testing and it's about the only idea I have left for you at this point.

I tried but got no luck...

[dmizer]

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

That looks fine. Are there any firewalls on the Windows machine? If so, try disabling them for testing.