Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[pmdkh]

I am going to take this issue up with the tech support folks at my workplace, because I believe that this issue arises from our company-specific firewall.

If the solution to this problem is applicable to everyone, I will come back to this thread and post it.

Thanks again for your help, dmizer.

[neo unplugged]

Hello Dmizer,
I quite a newbie to linux and Karmic. recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 and trying to mount other network drives at work. I followed your instructions but I always get the following weird error.
I tried cifs manual instructions and also tried the fstab option

Here's what am doing:

>> mount -t cifs -o username=DOMAIN/MYNAME, password=pAsSwOrD //SERVERNAME/SHARENAME /media/sdrive

>> ls /media/sdrive/

ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/d: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/?..: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/FM: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/MD-MA: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/??????: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/N~1: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/eca: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/N~1: No such file or directory
. <more such directories>
.
.
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/???: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/???: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/BBF40.: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/B~1: No such file or directory
??? ??? ?.. 1.P 6.2 8_Ali A~1 ?B2 cr D~1 E~1 F~1 FMD ign L~1 ?MD- N~1 P~1 R~1 S200 T~1 Y~1
? ??? ????? ~1 4 7-0 8.p B~1 B72EC. d D~1 eca FEmp FMD- K~1 L~1 ?MD-MA N~1 pri R~1 S2007-0 ta. y.pd
?? ??? ?????? -~1 4.p 7-0059 A~1 B~1 BBF40. D~1 E~1 f FM for L- ls? N~1 O~1 R~1 S20 S85 Ver

I dont understand what am doing wrong here. I've been reading online forums and man pages but couldn't find anything that could fix this.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Best.

[dmizer]

What happens if you run the following command:

sudo ls -la /media/sdrive

[neo unplugged]

[Before mounting]
sudo ls -la /media/sdrive
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-23 10:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-03-23 10:34 ..

[After mounting i.e. $ sudo mount -t cifs //sam301z70/shared /media/sdrive/ -o username=DOMAIN/username,password=passWord]


$ sudo ls -la /media/sdrive

ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/Q: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/ vs : No such file or directory
.
.
. <more of these errors>
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/L~1: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/????: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /media/sdrive/B~1: No such file or directory
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ?
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ??
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ??
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ???
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ???
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ???
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ????
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 13:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-03-23 10:34 ..
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? @
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? *
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ~1
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -~1
.
.
<more of these>
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? T~1
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? vs
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Y~1

Thanks.

[neo unplugged]

hey Dmizer,

i just reinstalled ssh and smbfs and it worked.. i am able to get all drives mounted.
Thank you

[dmizer]

hey Dmizer,

i just reinstalled ssh and smbfs and it worked.. i am able to get all drives mounted.
Thank you

Good to hear!

[dik23]

Using Hardy I am getting

CIFS VFS: Send error in SETFSUnixInfo = -11

Any idea what this is ? I can't find anything about it.

[dannyboy79]

still getting the CIFS VFS error upon shutdown which makes shutdown hang. I haver tried these solutions

created the K15umountnfs.sh symlink

also added
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh
}
exit 0

to /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default but I still get the error upon shutdown and it never happens.

any thoughts on how to solve

[jimthefen]

dmizer, your great step-by-step just resolved a problem that I've lived with for months. Seemed very clear and easy to follow; even this n00b was able to get three NAS samba shares mounted and accessible to all my non-Nautilus apps. MANY, many thanks!!!

[dannyboy79]

still getting the CIFS VFS error upon shutdown which makes shutdown hang. I haver tried these solutions

created the K15umountnfs.sh symlink

also added
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh
}
exit 0

to /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default but I still get the error upon shutdown and it never happens.

any thoughts on how to solve

bump, anyone else still having this issue in lucid besides me?