Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[glave]

That seemed to clear it up for me!

Although for clarification, this wasn't coming from a windows share, this was from a samba share running edgy in server mode!

[dmizer]

That seemed to clear it up for me!

fantastic!

[...] this was from a samba share running edgy in server mode!

if both your server and your client are linux, you should use nfs instead of samba. it's much easier to configure, and way faster. the fourth link in my sig will show you how to set up both the server and client. only a few lines of cli as compared to this mess.

[glave]

Unfortunately, I'm sharing out to windows machines as well, else I'd probably opt for nfs as the sole option!

[dmizer]

nothing to stop you from using both

[MichaelJohansson]

About mounting the ARGOSY HD363N (NAS) with cifs

....
if you could also try mounting with the "verbose" option like i requested from borka in post 162, i might be able to figure out more
....

I tried the verbose option but it doesn't give me any clue.

michael@hppavilion-linux:~$ sudo mount -t cifs --verbose //192.168.0.10/Apps /home/michael/mnt/Apps -o username=michael
parsing options: rw,username=michael
Password: 

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//192.168.0.10\Apps,ip=192.168.0.10,pass=1234,ver=1,rw,username=michael 
mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
michael@hppavilion-linux:~$

[dmizer]

humm ... MichaelJohansson and borka, i've been doing some digging and most of the information i'm finding on the error code 20 is quite old. so i did some digging on your particular unit, and it would seem that it's a buggy little sucker. it says cifs support, but apparently cifs support is something of an overstatement.

you can try going here:
http://www.argosyusa.net/product.asp...ct_name=HD363N
and make sure you have the latest firmware loaded (requires windows).

there's a healthy discussion you might try sifting through. located here:
http://www.futurehardware.in/66931.htm
it would appear that both windows and linux users are having problems with the unit.

otherwise you may just be stuck with smbfs. there are reasons why cheap hardware is cheap ...

HD363N NAS - 2 <> dmizer - 0

sorry folks ...

[borka]

Sorry for being away for some days, got my hands on some other problem..
But as Michaels smbfs options worked to get swedish characthers working, I think I can live with using that for now

Anyhow, I wish I had done some research about this particular NAS before I bought it, but that one was the only one that they sold at the time in the small town I live in
Otherwise I would have gone with some other hardware for it

Well well, thanks for you help guys, atleast I wont go anyfurther trying to get CIFS working with the Agrosys NAS..

Cya around
//Borka

[dmizer]

sorry again, and thanks for trying.

updated the howto to include a small disclaimer about NAS devices and the ARGOSY HD363N in particular.

[LavaHot]

so i get all the way to

sudo mount -a

, and it wont let me have a "$" at the end of a share, such as the hidden default shares on windows drives, and the "\ "trick for spaces doesn't work either. BUT, I've gotten around all that by creating new shares but now I get this:

mount: mount point 0 does not exist

when I enter

sudo mount -a

any ideas?

[dmizer]

you can mount "hidden" (in quotes because they are only hidden from ms machines) directories by putting quotes around the directory like so:

//netbiosname/"sharename$"

if that doesn't work, post the output of:

smbtree

and your fstab line.