[dundee] Garbled SMB filenames

Nistur nistur at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 4 14:49:28 BST 2007


I have not yet, I was a bit busy this morning. I'm just off to uni for an
hour japanese session... I'll have a go after that
Thanks again


On 10/4/07, James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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