[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#410802: smbclient: smbmount does not handle correctly unicode

[jeanmichel.123 at free.fr]

Quoting Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>:

> Quoting Jean-Michel (jeanmichel.123 at free.fr):
> > Package: smbclient
> > Version: 3.0.23d-2+b1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > When I acces a windows 2000 server, with smbmount, ls display unexisting
> > files, without displaying existing files.

(...)

> about providing us with your /etc/samba/smb.conf file?
>
> The "display charset", "unix charset" are particularly os some use.
>
> Knowing about the locale you're using on the Unix side would also help
> a lot.

There is nothing related to charset/unicode/codepage specified in smb.conf

However, I found a workaround. It is to use mount.cifs instead of mount.smbfs.
I have experimented the unicode difference, but do not know if there are any
other differences...

 locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=