Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:54:50 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (repost) cannot read windows share Message-ID: <457509AA.5030007@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <457507A4.40101@u.washington.edu> References: <1165282478.5417.6.camel@joe.realss.com> <200612041946.15303.lane@joeandlane.com> <457507A4.40101@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Lane wrote: >> On Monday 04 December 2006 19:34, 张韡武 wrote: >>> This is a re-post, I am getting desperate because my work >>> require me to connect to this share and my colleague can mount >>> the share on Debian. I will have to move to install Debian if I >>> wish to go on working... But I am already used to my BSD. It's >>> too strange to move to another OS for such a tiny problem! Could >>> what I mention below be a bug of FreeBSD mount_smbfs? >>> >>> Using FreeBSD 6.1, I can mount a windows share but the Chinese >>> characters in folder and file names look junk text to me. Charset >>> conversion (-E parameter of mount_smbfs) do not work at all. If I do >>> ls(1) to a directory that has Chinese character in its name, the process >>> 'ls' will take about 80% CPU resource and hang there forever. Ctrl+C >>> cannot stop it (kill -KILL can). If I run other command that read any >>> file in the directory that has Chinese character in its name, that >>> application hangs there taking about 80% CPU resource too. >>> >>> This process is better illustrated with this screenshot: >>> gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/mount_chinese_smbshare.png >>> >>> In the screenshot, I do have mounted the share with -E parameter which >>> should convert GB18030 folder names to UTF-8 but >>> actually no conversion is done (see the ls | iconv which shows what it >>> should be looking like if the conversion is done) >>> >>> Actually I have never successfully done charset conversion with >>> mount_smbfs, what did I do wrong? >>> >> weiwu, >> >> One thing comes to mind: Try your question here: >> >> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/ >> >> and here: >> >> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ >> >> and here: >> >> http://us1.samba.org/samba/archives.html >> >> and here: >> >> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/ >> >> Your question is specific to samba, and probably not related to >> FreeBSD-specific issues. >> >> lane >> P.S. I note that the hosts in the links above are mostly "us1." >> That's probably something to do with the language specification on my >> system, but may be different for you. Check out www.samba.org for >> better links. > > Your issue has to deal with locales and character sets. I think what > you want to do is look into mount(8) and mount_smbfs(8), if you use > fstab to specify mounts for the SMB share instead of smbmount. > > A flag that sort of jumped out at me in mount_smbfs(8) was... > > -E cs1:cs2 > Specifies local (cs1) and server's (cs2) character sets. > > Cheers, > -Garrett Also, I'm not sure if FreeBSD has been configured to run the particular character set you need (nor am I sure where any documentation may be regarding how to set that up), but you also want to explore getting that solved in tandem with the mount_smbfs item. Regardless of whether or not you specify the right character code for smbmount, if the character set isn't available to the system or setup properly, your specifying the character set with mount_smbfs is pretty much moot; I know because I use Japanese in Linux and was having similar issues until I got everything setup on the machine for Japanese reading and writing. FreeBSD China <http://www.freebsd.org.cn/>; probably holds the answers to your problem, if your system isn't setup to read/write Chinese. Isn't cross-language communication fun =\? -Garrett
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