Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[pajarraco]

Hi, i had the same problems and i fixed like this.

this is my sftab file

//23.11.74.90/Media 	/mnt/media 	smbfs iocharset=utf8,username=MyUsername,password=MyPassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0
//23.11.74.90/Document	/mnt/document 	smbfs iocharset=utf8,username=MyUsername,password=MyPassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0
//23.11.74.90/Files	/mnt/files	smbfs iocharset=utf8,username=MyUsername,password=MyPassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0

I hope this help you

[^_Pepe_^]

Hi, i had the same problems and i fixed like this.

this is my sftab file

//23.11.74.90/Media 	/mnt/media 	smbfs iocharset=utf8,username=MyUsername,password=MyPassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0
//23.11.74.90/Document	/mnt/document 	smbfs iocharset=utf8,username=MyUsername,password=MyPassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0
//23.11.74.90/Files	/mnt/files	smbfs iocharset=utf8,username=MyUsername,password=MyPassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0

I hope this help you

Thank you so much (to everyone). This, finally worked for me.

NOTE: Even though in 9.04, the problem loggin out is present and you have to umount your cifs units before shutdown, otherwise, a pretty freeze is shown.

Best regards!
Pepe

[Grimmy]

@dmizer - Thanks for the guide, I was able to resolve issues I was having with my EeePC seeing my Samba shares correctly by following the pre-work steps.

[dmizer]

@dmizer - Thanks for the guide, I was able to resolve issues I was having with my EeePC seeing my Samba shares correctly by following the pre-work steps.

My pleasure.

I also posted a condensed version of the fix in that thread.

[rmartinus]

Hi, I'm a new Ubuntu user, and dmizer, the "nounix" option worked for me. What does that option actually do?
Thanks for the guide..

[maxim99]

Thank you for this post it was very helpful to me. Something that might be helpful to other is that I had to unmount the share, and remount the share in order for the change to take effect. Using mount -a didn't make a difference in the effectivness of the iocharset variable. A umount, then a mount works perfect. Thanks again.

[nadip]

Hi dmizer:
This is my first post on this forum.
I am at the end of my first week learning ubuntu-
I am trying to set up a samba pdc and I might say the progress is noticeable.
My only problem is that I cannot make other admin group users see and edit files on a samba server share, from a winXP machine. Only the root account has been allowed to do that. It is of course a clear case of permissions. How can I change the permissions on those shares so that the files can be accessed by other people than myself (root)?
I have tried to apply your remedy but Iºm a afraid that is too difficult for me at this stage. Basically I have found my UID and GID but I donºt know how to insert them in the fstab file. What do you mean by netbiosname/sharename and media/sharename? And how exactly should I edit the fstab file?
Please help me. My PDC is almost up and running.
Many thanks in advance.


Quote:
Files owned by root. If you can view but not change, delete, or add new files to your Samba share, try this fix:

1) Find your uid and gid (normally both are 1000, but double check):
Code:

cat /etc/passwd | grep ubuntu-username

The output will look something like this (my uid and gid are marked in red):
Code:

$ cat /etc/passwd | grep dmizer
dmizer:1000:1000:dmizer,,,:/home/dmizer:/bin/bash

2) Add gid, uid, and nounix options to your fstab line like so:
Code:

//netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,n ounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 (end of quote)

[KatmanHH]

Thank you immensely. After fighting a network storage drive for a day the first post on this thread hooked me right up perfect. Its there through a reboot and everything. SHWEEEEEEEEEET!

[KatmanHH]

Welllllllll I aint quite outta the woods yet. I can access the drive fine but I tried to start moving some data over there and it says I don't have the permission to do that.

I think it is only a tiny fix but not sure where to go. Could I have a pointer? Please?

Thanks

[KatmanHH]

Is this a problem with my Ubuntu box or with the network storage drive?