Re: [tlug] smbfs & kana/kanji

[Guy W <gw@example.com>]

Neil Bortnak wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I don't think that's it. Most of my tests were conducted on the Japanese
>version of knoppix which displays the kana just fine. Also, at least
>some portion of the filenames were being received as question marks
>directly from the server because unicode transport failed for one reason
>or another.
>
>Do you have kana displayed on filenames you are accessing over a
>CIFS/SMB link to a non-samba server? I would have thought this to be an
>amazingly common setup.
>
>Neil
>
I once had a similar problem with not being able to see the filenames on 
Japanese Windows shares.
IIRC, it was working OK after switching to Japanese locale & terminal 
charset.

However,  I should have said, that was only using the smbclient command 
line rather than an smbmount.

Guy