Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[dmizer]

Do I still use the same commands you wrote underneath to fix this, even though my set up is slightly different than mounting shares directly on a server/partition?

I keep the howto current. What you see in the first post is the very latest information. There is a fix for all versions up to Ibex, as well as a Jaunty specific fix for that error.

The error you get is actually a client side error, so it doesn't matter how your servers are set up.

[Ginsly]

Oh, ok.... gotcha...

And nice work for keeping this thread active for 2 years +

Thanks very much mate...

[NexusGS]

Hello all,

First of all gratz for the great guide. I have an issue on mount using cifs:

When I mount the shared folder, I have full read-write perm. But when i create a subfolder for example, this folder is ro to me! I cannot write anything...I have faced the same issue on that at the past but I googled it and found it.If I remember correctly, it's an issue with file_mode and dir_mode but cannot remember what...Anyone can help me on that?

My mount line in fstab:
//server/share /mnt/folder cifs guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=07 77 0 0

I want full read-write perm to everyone (shame on me )

[juliet charley]

I have followed your tutorial rigourously and complete all the Pre-work, but when I try to mount my XP sharename, it tells me "mount error(112): Host is down." Can you help?

FWIW, I'm new at Ubuntu/Linux so it really needs to kept simple (beginnger level) for me.

Thanks.

[billswan]

I'm back, after travel and illness. Okay. I've set up fstab et al so the Xubuntu box will see network machines that are up when it boots.

Now I am ready to try to dynamically connect.

[billswan]

Read: "browse"

smbtree output:
E-----N
\\XUBUNTU-B xubuntu-b server (Samba, Ubuntu)
\\XUBUNTU-B\DESKJET-660C DESKJET-660C
\\XUBUNTU-B\HP5150 HP5150
\\XUBUNTU-B\IPC$ IPC Service (xubuntu-b server (Samba, Ubuntu))
\\XUBUNTU-B\print$ Printer Drivers
\\DELL-C600 An Innea

xubuntu-b is this machine. DELL-C600 has an open share (for now) but is rarely on so I'd like to browse it.

[NexusGS]

Hello all,

First of all gratz for the great guide. I have an issue on mount using cifs:

When I mount the shared folder, I have full read-write perm. But when i create a subfolder for example, this folder is ro to me! I cannot write anything...I have faced the same issue on that at the past but I googled it and found it.If I remember correctly, it's an issue with file_mode and dir_mode but cannot remember what...Anyone can help me on that?

My mount line in fstab:
//server/share /mnt/folder cifs guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=07 77 0 0

I want full read-write perm to everyone (shame on me )

I have to inform you that I found out what was the problem:

There is a bug in Samba that only appears on mount shares on Unix system (that's what I found at Internet) and you can just fix it by adding the "noperm" in fstab or in mount command, for example:

//server/share /mnt/folder cifs guest,noperm,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=07 77 0 0

[dmizer]

I'm back, after travel and illness. Okay. I've set up fstab et al so the Xubuntu box will see network machines that are up when it boots.

Now I am ready to try to dynamically connect.

Well, your time away has given me the time to write a tutorial for your exact problem. See the 6th link in my sig

[dmizer]

I have followed your tutorial rigourously and complete all the Pre-work, but when I try to mount my XP sharename, it tells me "mount error(112): Host is down." Can you help?

FWIW, I'm new at Ubuntu/Linux so it really needs to kept simple (beginnger level) for me.

Thanks.

Please post the output of:

smbtree

And post your current /etc/fstab line (or mount command)

[billswan]

It seems my reply got lost. Thought I was there for a bit but backtracking in Thunar produced a "Transport endpoint is not connected" error. Reading through on a search on that message it appears some module is not thread-safe and a reversion to an earlier one worked for somebody. Naturally, the link to what that person used (for xubuntu 8.10, same as me) is dead.
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And very shortly I will be away from this machine for nearly a month, both business and vacation travel. Oh well, will try to pick it up when I'm back.