samba halts when viewing floders with localised chars

2 networked computers 1 Suse 8. 0 2 windows 98 I mount the windows files like this #smbmount \\\\tomay\\c /mnt/c Everything works ok until I want to view a folder that contains files with localised characters (©ÐÈÆ®¹ðèæ¾) you probably won't be able to read them.

Linux Networking 361 This topic was started by ,


data/avatar/default/avatar28.webp

530 Posts
Location -
Joined 2001-10-09
2 networked computers
 
1 Suse 8.0
2 windows 98
 
I mount the windows files like this
 
#smbmount \\\\tomay\\c /mnt/c
 
Everything works ok until I want to view a folder that contains files with localised characters (:copyright:ÐÈÆ:registered:¹ðèæ¾) you probably won't be able to read them.
When I browse to such a folder the browser just stops responding. I can kill the X with ctrl+alt+bckspace but if I try to browse /mnt/c folder the same thing happens.
 
Is there a solution for this????
 
How can I unmount //tomay/c
It won't unmoun using -f
 
It stops on shutdown, when it tries to unmount (complaining about the connection being in use), so I have to turn the computer off manualy.
 
Is there something stronger than umount -f ????
 
Please help.

Participate on our website and join the conversation

You have already an account on our website? Use the link below to login.
Login
Create a new user account. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds.
Register
This topic is archived. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

Responses to this topic


data/avatar/default/avatar06.webp

19 Posts
Location -
Joined 2003-01-10
Quote:2 networked computers

1 Suse 8.0
2 windows 98

I mount the windows files like this

#smbmount \\\\tomay\\c /mnt/c

Everything works ok until I want to view a folder that contains files with localised characters (:copyright:ÐÈÆ:registered:¹ðèæ¾) you probably won't be able to read them.
When I browse to such a folder the browser just stops responding. I can kill the X with ctrl+alt+bckspace but if I try to browse /mnt/c folder the same thing happens.

Is there a solution for this????

How can I unmount //tomay/c
It won't unmoun using -f

It stops on shutdown, when it tries to unmount (complaining about the connection being in use), so I have to turn the computer off manualy.

Is there something stronger than umount -f ????

Please help.

Update to the latest version of Samba. Windoes 98 also has a hard time with long file/folder names. it truncates them and often even corrupts them when using the CIFS file system.

This was solved later on. You may also want to try LinNeighborhood to see whether you get the same errors by mounting the files with that utility.

data/avatar/default/avatar28.webp

530 Posts
Location -
Joined 2001-10-09
OP
I get the same error with LinNeighborhood.
 
How do I determine wich version of samba I have?
The latest is 2.2.7a

data/avatar/default/avatar28.webp

530 Posts
Location -
Joined 2001-10-09
OP
My version of samba is 2.2.3a
 
I can browse the windows98 computer with Konqueror entering smb://tomay/c and it gives me no errors, but the localization is not right, I get some strange characters.
 
[Edit] I fixed the codepage in samba.conf file, but when I mount I still get the error. I guess latest version of samba is next...