Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[Dareus]

I used this guide to solve some issues (openoffice and shutdown/reboot), those were very annoying problems.

I was saying that probably mount -a is done before the network is available (provided by knetworkmanager)

[scoopy]

Hey thanks for this.

I was directed to this thread as I was having issues with saving OpenOffice files to a windows xp home share.

Got a mount working and it all seems to be running pretty well . . . however, sometimes when i save files to the mounted drive it's read only (little padlock in icon view in nautalis), sometimes this will happen from OpenOffice when I'm doing a save as. sometimes it won't.

This is my fstab code:

//studycom/j/My\040Documents    /media/JodieFiles/       cifs    guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

[dmizer]

Got a mount working and it all seems to be running pretty well . . . however, sometimes when i save files to the mounted drive it's read only (little padlock in icon view in nautalis), sometimes this will happen from OpenOffice when I'm doing a save as. sometimes it won't.

Try adding the nounix and nobrl options like so:

//studycom/j/My\040Documents    /media/JodieFiles/       cifs    guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,nounix,nobrl,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Please let me know if that works

[scoopy]

Try adding the nounix and nobrl options like so:

Please let me know if that works

Hey, thanks for getting back so quick! what a legend!

Tried what you suggested but no change - new files are read only. I can delete them though.

Thanks again!

[dmizer]

Hey, thanks for getting back so quick! what a legend!

Tried what you suggested but no change - new files are read only. I can delete them though.

Thanks again!

No problem!

Did you remount the share (or reboot) after making the change? If not, you should. The changes will not take effect until you remount.

[scoopy]

Yes I did reboot

[dmizer]

Yeesh, OK ... I will take a look at this when I get home from work and have a bit more time to look for possible solutions.

[dmizer]

Yes I did reboot

scoopy,

I have tested multiple configurations in my sandbox, but I have not been able to duplicate your problem.

Please try this line:

//studycom/j/My\040Documents    /media/JodieFiles/       cifs    guest,user=windows-username,rw,iocharset=utf8,nounix,nobrl,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Replace "windows-username" with the actual username on your Windows computer (eg. administrator).

If that is not successful, please post the output of:

ls -l /media/JodieFiles

[Alexandre76]

Are you attempting to mount a share on an active directory?

Yes, I was able to access my home folder, but now I had to switch back to Vista as I couldn't access those AD folders

[dmizer]

Yes, I was able to access my home folder, but now I had to switch back to Vista as I couldn't access those AD folders

Sorry, mounting AD folders is significantly more complex and outside the scope of this howto. It is possible, but it's a daunting chore, so I certainly sympathize with your need to return to Vista.

If you feel brave and would like to try again in the future, here are two helpful links: http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com...in-ubuntu-804/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510