Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[dmizer]

you were able to mount the windows shared folder from ubuntu? if so, yup, that's it.

[swarles_barkley]

The file share mounted and appeared on the desktop. Thank you!

Now to figure out a way to get the PS3 to play my video files smoothly.

[dmizer]

no problem, glad we got you working.

for video, i've found that xine works the best. for gnome, look through synaptic for the package xine-ui and install that. see if that gives you better playback.

[swarles_barkley]

Is there a divx/xvid codec that I'd need to install for Xine? (I was using vlc before)

[dmizer]

honestly, i don't know. i just followed this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...8restricted%29

then installed xine-ui and everything worked fine.

[HeyItsMatt]

Hey, I was attempting to follow your guide, and I wanted to try doing a manual mount first instead of a permanent one. When I attempt to use a mount command, I get the error "mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory". (I've set a Samba username and password but I tried all 3 commands just in case I was confused and did something wrong when creating a user - all the same result). The folder I am trying to mount from a Windows XP comp has no files in it so I'm not sure why this would be memory-intensive or anything.

I can actually access my Windows XP computer from this Linux computer using Nautilus and see the shared folders on it, but when I try to open the folder it gives the error "The folder contents could not be displayed. Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "XXX". It was previously working fine and I was able to go to "Places / Network servers" and take files from XP onto this Ubuntu machine, but after I restarted XP a while ago for some reason I have been getting this error message - this is why I was trying to mount the shared folder myself.

I just can't figure out what's going on... perhaps this isn't something you can't help me with and my Windows machine is somehow having a problem? There are other Windows XP machines on my LAN and I can view/take from their shared folders as normal. I also noticed that I can't seem to see any shared folders I set up on this Ubuntu machine from my Windows XP machine, despite having samba installed... I guess this might not really be related though.

Sorry if anything is vague, I'm a Linux newbie and this stuff gives me headaches I don't even mind when stuff doesn't work, but when something worked and then randomly stops working, it's like it's teasing me.

[dmizer]

well, that's a new one. gimme a bit to hunt it down.

[dmizer]

can you post the exact line you used to mount your share please (not the one from my example, the actual line you used)?

[HeyItsMatt]

Hopefully this is what you meant -

sudo mount -t cifs //matt8200/8200share /media/8200share -o username=matt,password=xxxxxx,iocharset=utf8,file_ mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

matt8200 being the hostname of my Windows XP computer, 8200share being the name of the shared folder I have set up (I have a folder with the same name created in this Ubuntu computers' /media/ folder)

I did the same thing for your other two commands. They didn't actually mount anything though, just gave me the memory allocation error instead of mounting.

[dmizer]

okay ... try this command and tell me what the output is:

sudo mount -t cifs //matt8200/8200share /media/8200share --verbose -o username=matt,password=xxxxxx,iocharset=utf8,file_ mode=0777,dir_mode=0777