Re: SMBfs / Unicode problem perhaps?

[Urban Widmark]

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Peter J. Milanese wrote:

> :\ - I am running 2.2.3a... I'll look at those messages and see if there is a
> corelation. Thanks for the tip-

Are you sure your smbmount is 2.2.3a and that you don't have a mix of an
old 2.2.1a install? smbmount from 2.2.3a should not negotiate unicode
unless you told it to ...

You could also try the untested patch below that only enables it if you
also specify "codepage=unicode" as a mount option.

/Urban

diff -urN -X exclude linux-2.5.13-kbuild-orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c linux-2.5.13-kbuild-smbfs/fs/smbfs/proc.c
--- linux-2.5.13-kbuild-orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c	Fri May  3 02:22:42 2002
+++ linux-2.5.13-kbuild-smbfs/fs/smbfs/proc.c	Sun May  5 14:53:08 2002
@@ -979,7 +979,9 @@
 		SB_of(server)->s_maxbytes = ~0ULL >> 1;
 		VERBOSE("LFS enabled\n");
 	}
-	if (server->opt.capabilities & SMB_CAP_UNICODE) {
+	if (server->opt.capabilities & SMB_CAP_UNICODE &&
+	    server->remote_nls == &unicode_table) {
+		/* Only enable unicode if the remote nls is also unicode */
 		server->mnt->flags |= SMB_MOUNT_UNICODE;
 		VERBOSE("Unicode enabled\n");
 	} else {