Can't open some folders on remote Samba window client

[LeifA]

When I connect with Samba in Dolphin to a win2000 computer and there is folder names in the win2000 computer directory which contain letters from the Swedish language (å,ä,ö). These directories can not be open. All others open fine.
Is there a solution for this ?

LeifA wrote:

> When I connect with Samba in Dolphin to a win2000 computer and there is
> folder names in the win2000 computer directory which contain letters
> from the Swedish language (å,ä,ö). These directories can not be open.
> All others open fine.
> Is there a solution for this ?

Is your system locale configured with utf-8? :-?

Run "locale" from xterm and check the output.

Anyway, you can try to manually mount the samba resource and test if that
works (in one line):

***
su -c 'mount -t cifs //server/resource /mnt -o
iocharset=utf8,user=samba_share_user,password=samb a_share_password'
***

*Be carefull* with the above command as it will mount the specified samba
share under /mnt, so *before issue the command* just check there is no data
there.

Once mounted, just check if folders with swedish characters are displayed
and can be accessed o.k.

Greetings,

--
Camaleón

[LeifA]

As root user, locale shows;
LC_CTYPE = SV_SE.UTF-8
LC_ALL =
The rest is = "posix"

As user and xterm or terminal locale shows;
LC_ALL =
All the rest = SV_SE.UTF-8

As root user manually mount the samba resource;
All folders (including the ones with swedish characters) on remote can be found in /mnt and be opened.

As user and via xterm a password is requested after the string has been entered. I entered root password and got following respons,
"can not access a needed shared library"

As user and via terminal a password is requested this time too. Enter root password and it respond as it should. I can find all folders ok in /mnt

Through dolphin samba connection the folders with swedish characters can not be found/opened neither as a user or as root.

LeifA wrote:

> As user and via terminal a password is requested this time too. Enter
> root password and it respond as it should. I can find all folders ok in
> /mnt
>
> Through dolphin samba connection the folders with swedish characters
> can not be found/opened neither as a user or as root.

O.k. So manually mounting the share just works as expected but browsing with
nautilus doesn't...

I am trying to reproduce your problem in my box (my locale setup defaults
to "es_ES.UTF-8" -Spanish also uses such characters "áë" and so...-)
running opensuse 11.1 and gnome (nautilus version is 2.24.1) but I can
access my windows shares (windows xp) with no problems at all.

So maybe specific to your concrete setup... mmm, searching a bit with
Google, I have found this recent post:

Charachter encoding problem in Samba
http://tinyurl.com/mxlaaj

And no response, which is quite strange :-/

Not sure how to bypass this, sorry... just wait for someone here can tell
you any tip or better yet, fill a bugzilla so developers can take a
look :-)

Greetings,

--
Camaleón

[LeifA]

Thanks for the link,I'll play around with it after our midsummer holliday and see what pops up. If anyone have any ideas please let me know.