HOWTO have Chinese filenames in Samba

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Have you system Chinese-enabled

Follow this great guide [1] to let your gentoo to support Chinese first.

I think arphicfonts is the key. You can choose not to install the two others.(I've only installed the first two, working ok)

Make your gentoo UTF-8 Ready

Check this out. UTF-8 & [2]

Samba

I assume you have installed Samba successfully. If not please refer to the following: HOWTO Setup Samba

Then in your /etc/samba/smb.conf, add these lines:

[global]   
dos charset = UTF-8
unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = UTF-8

Now mount the shared directory from Windows by the following command:

smbmount //servername/shared_directory destination_dir -o iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp950

Note: There is no space around the comma.

You should have the filenames displayed in Chinese properly!

Contributor

13:49, 12 Jun 2005 (GMT) Bernard Fok, Melbourne