Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:58:49 +1000 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: Moving from smbfs to cifs Message-ID: <484F6999.4080001@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <484F5726.9050300@mawer.org> References: <7d6fde3d0806091102k62637099qbaa73ca4d38ff64c@mail.gmail.com> <e7db6d980806091319n1caef691k2b0dbf295d796311@mail.gmail.com> <484DB796.4030204@mawer.org> <20080611022502.3d6c01d5.stas@FreeBSD.org> <484F5726.9050300@mawer.org>
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Antony Mawer wrote: > Stanislav Sedov wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:07:02 +1000 >> Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> mentioned: >> >>> - Problems dealing with various character encodings in filenames >> >> What problems you mean? It has a '-E' switch to set encoding. >> E.g. '-E koi8-r:cp866' always works for me. > > The problems I was referring to are mainly regarding smbfs on FreeBSD > talking to Samba on Mac OS X. My understanding (from conversations with > R. Imura) is that the Mac OS X implementation of Samba speaks Unicode by > default, whereas the smbfs implementation is not multi-byte aware. > > This can lead to situations where files on the Mac OS X server with > multi-byte characters in the filenames are not accessible via SMBFS - > they appear with jumbled names in the directory listing, and cannot be > accessed using any name (smbfs returns "file not found"). > > > I stumbled across patches available by R. Imura which are a work todays > adding Unicode support to smbfs, and from what I gather are derived from > changes in Darwin (Mac OS X) smbfs: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ > > > There are potentially other improvements available from the Darwin SMBFS > implementation, available here: > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.2/ > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/smb-348.1.tar.gz Probably another reference worth looking at: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/ --Antony
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