Re: Invalid Unicode

[William Lovaton <williama_lovaton coomeva com co>]

Hi,

I managed to solve this.  First of all, if you are using a VFAT
filesystem, use the "utf8" option in fstab.  Something like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat    user,noauto,utf8        0 0

For samba shares use cifs.  I had to use the command line to mount
because adding the entry in fstab doesn't work for mounting.  It does
for unmounting though.

I used this command:
mount -t cifs //server/share /mount-dir -o domain=x,user=y,password=z

You have to be root to mount that.  with this fstab entry you can
unmount from the desktop:

//server/share /mount-dir cifs
defaults,users,noauto,domain=x,credentials=credential-file 0 0

When you mount from the desktop with this entry it complains that there
is no valid username.  I tried with credentials and writing the login
and password directly in fstab.  It didn't work.

I hope this info helps.


-William


El vie, 17-12-2004 a las 15:05 -0500, William Alberto Lovaton Tovar
escribió: 
> Hi Gabor,
> 
> Thanks for the response... but it didn't work.  At least the few tests I
> did.  I have something like this:
> 
> smbmount //dncclo07/proyectos /home/william/smb/dncclo07/Proyectos -o
> credentials=/home/william/smb/credential,iocharset=UTF-8,codepage=cp850
> 
> I tried some others values in iocharset and codepage but the problemas
> remains.
> 
> How do I know the appropriate values for a given partition??  I mean, I
> have the very same problem with Windows partitions in my local disk or
> for any vfat partition for that matter.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> 
> -William
> 
> 
> El vie, 17-12-2004 a las 18:45 +0100, Gábor Farkas escribió:
> > William Lovaton wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I'm using Fedora Core 3 with the es_CO locale.  When I mount a Windows
> > > share through Linux (not smb in gnome-vfs because I can't use it ATM)
> > > and when I browse it with nautilus I get lots of files and directories
> > > with special chars like ligatures and tildes (áóúñÑ) with the sign "?"
> > > and the string "(Invalid unicode)" attached to the end of the file.
> > > 
> > > And because of this OpenOffice and Gnumeric can't open the documents in
> > > there.  the only one that can is AbiWord but it can't work with .XLS
> > > files so I need OO or Gnumeric.
> > > 
> > > What kind of option can I use to solve this.  I configured the share
> > > in /etc/fstab
> > > 
> > nautilus wants to have everything in utf8.
> > 
> > look into 'man smbmount'...
> > 
> > there are 2 switches relevant here:
> > 
> > ====
> > iocharset=<arg>
> > 
> > sets the charset used by the Linux side for codepage to  charset
> > translations  (NLS).  Argument  should be the name of a charset,
> > like iso8859-1. (Note: only kernel 2.4.0 or later)
> > 
> > codepage=<arg>
> > 
> > sets the codepage the server uses. See the iocharset option. Ex-
> > ample value cp850. (Note: only kernel 2.4.0 or later)
> > ====
> > so basically iocharset should be set to the thing you use, and codepage 
> > to the thing that the server uses (imho).
> > 
> > i haven't tested them, because i don't have access to a samba share 
> > right now, but i assume something like this should work:
> > 
> > smbmount //remoteserver/share1 /home/user/localdir -o 
> > iocharset=UTF-8,codepage=serverEncoding
> > 
> > where serverEncoding is the encoding used on the server.
> > 
> > gabor