Answer by M.T.R. for Special characters in Samba filenames
Yes, it's the char encoding to blame.Pass "iocharset=iso8859-1" as an option to mount.cifs or select an iso8859-1 locale, instead of an utf-8.You could also try to prepend "LANG=C.ISO8859-1" or...
View ArticleAnswer by Yuri Sucupira for Special characters in Samba filenames
I own an Apple Macbook Pro laptop with 64-bit OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" running Samba 3 that I installed through Macports.I also own a Dell Inspiron laptop with 64-bit GNU/Linux XUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial...
View ArticleAnswer by SimonSimCity for Special characters in Samba filenames
I use a shared folder on OS-X and Windows. Some files have the same issue, because they fall into the following: They use characters in the file-name, not supported by Windows.See:...
View ArticleAnswer by Pol Hallen for Special characters in Samba filenames
from samba documentation you can use these:dos charset = ISO8859-1unix charset = ISO8859-1display charset = ISO8859-1
View ArticleAnswer by Dennis Williamson for Special characters in Samba filenames
Windows does not allow some characters in filenames that Unix does allow. Samba "mangles" the filenames to make them comply with Windows restrictions. You can check the file /etc/smb.conf or...
View ArticleSpecial characters in Samba filenames
When serving files containing special characters such as "()?:" in the filename through Samba, the names get transformed into an unrecognizable format. For example, a filemy_file:_(important).txtis...
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