Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[dmizer]

However - all Russian letters are now as �����.......any ideas ?

P.S. thanks a lot for your help

Try changing cp1251 to utf8.

[virtualXTC]

Hi dmizer,
Thanks for the very useful thread!

Just an FYI; I'm running Karmic have a apple time capsule and found that I had to use both the Karmic AND the Hardy trouble shooting options in order to fix the problem (per this tread: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/406466 )

Once again thanks for such a nice tread.

[DownTown22]

Thanks a lot for the info!

The major difference between the guide you followed is that my guide covers more material, and comes with my personal support

And, I do enjoy the personal support!

[DownTown22]

I've noticed since I upgraded to 9.10, that browsing my NAS drive has become very slow. Particularly, when browsing folders that contain images. Is there anything I can do to speed this up?

I currently run 9.10 and my NAS drive is a D-Link DNS-323.

Also, below is the fstab entry.

//192.168.0.101/Volume_1 /home/aaron/DNS-323 cifs guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,nounix,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

[Sader]

Try changing cp1251 to utf8.

Man you're amazing! Already done that by myself though....

Thanks a bunch for your help,
Regards
Sader

[dmizer]

I've noticed since I upgraded to 9.10, that browsing my NAS drive has become very slow. Particularly, when browsing folders that contain images. Is there anything I can do to speed this up?

I currently run 9.10 and my NAS drive is a D-Link DNS-323.

Also, below is the fstab entry.

//192.168.0.101/Volume_1 /home/aaron/DNS-323 cifs guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,nounix,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

This is a Nautilus feature. Remember, Nautilus loads thumbnails of all the images (as well as other files) so if you have huge folders full of images it will take a while to load them all. However, after the first time accessing the folder and after allowing all the thumbnails to load, you won't have the speed problem anymore.

If you're still having problems, there's a discussion earlier in this thread regarding this problem but the resolution was to change from Nautilus to Xubuntu's Thunar.

[Velophile]

.....
you probably get the cifs vfs: server not responding... error during shutdown, but thats already covered in the tread. Except for the jaunty fix for putting /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh above exit 0 in the /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default file. Doesn't work trough wireless in 9.10

I run the same command as root> sudo /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh before shutdown and the pc shuts down without any probl..

Which is the problem I'm trying to solve, shutdown works fine with CIFS mounted windows shares when I'm using the ethernet network but get the 'server not responding' error when on WiFi.

I've tried adding umounts in all the places suggested in this guide plus a few others (rc6.d, if-down.d).

Any ideas on how I can try and sort this out?

[varanasi]

The bug report sums up my experience with the error:

The moving/copying of the rc0/6 scripts doesn't seem to work in Karmic RC (using wireless). I just get a hang on shutdown with the message "init: usplash post-start process (2446) terminated with status 1" and never seems to shut down. If I put the scripts back the way they're supposed to be, then I simply get the usual CIFS VFS errors.

and

Confirmed here too. I've tried all the solutions listed previously to resolve this issue in Karmic and Wireless, but I always experience a hang on shutdown. The only "workaround" (not really) I've found so far is to add the "users" option to my /etc/fstab entry for my cifs share, then manually unmount the volume before shutting down / restarting the laptop.

[dmizer]

Which is the problem I'm trying to solve, shutdown works fine with CIFS mounted windows shares when I'm using the ethernet network but get the 'server not responding' error when on WiFi.

I've tried adding umounts in all the places suggested in this guide plus a few others (rc6.d, if-down.d).

Any ideas on how I can try and sort this out?

Are you using WPA encryption on your wireless, and are you using NetworkManager to manage your wireless connection?

[Velophile]

Hi dmizer, thanks for the reply/help.

In short; yes and yes.

I tried switching to wicd to see if that helped and it didn't. I could try a test with different/no security (temporarily) when I get home.