SAMBA - strangeness with the charsets [SOLVED]

m0rtal · Last edited by m0rtal on Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:19 am; edited 1 time in total

I have a Gentoo file server running SAMBA, few windows desktops and one gentoo desktop.
Since I have a lot of files named in russian, I have enabled "dos charset = 866" in samba config, and that's works fine for windows machines, they sees cyrillic filenames correctly.
But my gentoo box sees them as set of squares, so I've added line "unix carset = 866" to samba config, and that works... only till I've checked windows machines and discovered that they no longer displays cyrillics correctly.
So, my gentoo server is able to serve one OS at the time, but that's of course is not acceptable.
No matter what options do I pass to mount command (codepage, iocharset, nls) - file names are displayed by squares in gentoo box, so I think the problem is on the server part. Where am I wrong?
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SnEptUne · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 656

Have you set the LC_CTYPE to russian (ru_RU)?
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m0rtal · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:24 am Post subject:

m0rtal · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:19 am Post subject:

huh... I found what was wrong!
My default charset for SMB filesystems were "866", not the needed "cp866"!!!
So that was totally my fault, sorry

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