Moving from smbfs to cifs

[Antony Mawer]

Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:07:02 +1000
> Antony Mawer <fbsd-current at mawer.org> mentioned:
> 
>>      - Problems dealing with various character encodings in filenames
> 
> What problems you mean? It has a '-E' switch to set encoding.
> E.g. '-E koi8-r:cp866' always works for me.

The problems I was referring to are mainly regarding smbfs on FreeBSD 
talking to Samba on Mac OS X. My understanding (from conversations with 
R. Imura) is that the Mac OS X implementation of Samba speaks Unicode by 
default, whereas the smbfs implementation is not multi-byte aware.

This can lead to situations where files on the Mac OS X server with 
multi-byte characters in the filenames are not accessible via SMBFS - 
they appear with jumbled names in the directory listing, and cannot be 
accessed using any name (smbfs returns "file not found").


I stumbled across patches available by R. Imura which are a work todays 
adding Unicode support to smbfs, and from what I gather are derived from 
changes in Darwin (Mac OS X) smbfs:

http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/


There are potentially other improvements available from the Darwin SMBFS 
implementation, available here:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.2/
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/smb-348.1.tar.gz


--Antony