[dundee] Garbled SMB filenames

[James Le Cuirot]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:15:02 +0100
Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Ok, the NAS is just a cheap enclosure I picked up when I trashed my
> PC the end of last year as I wanted to keep my 300GB HDD. Sumvision
> something or other. I tried CIFS as well but it couldn't resolve the
> name, I even tried with the IP, I had a look at man mount.cifs and
> everything. I haven't a clue about the firmware, I tried a while ago
> to brave the ravenous wastelands of the sumvision site to look for
> new one. I'll try that a bit later. As for windows, my WinXP VM
> currently has it mapped as a network drive and is working fine.
> >From the NAS http control panel, I can't find any mention of CIFS
> >either, it
> has samba access and ftp but that's it.
> 
> Thanks all :)

Yeah Samba can mean cifs and/or smbfs. I would expect either to work. I
have found that sometimes it only works when you give the IP but you
tried that. Did you try codepage 437?

James