[dundee] Garbled SMB filenames

Nistur nistur at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 4 16:12:32 BST 2007


OK, I'm back now, codepage 437 and 850 produce different, although similarly
incomprehensible garbage. I'll continue trying to look into cifs...

On 10/4/07, Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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