Moving from smbfs to cifs

[Antony Mawer]

Antony Mawer wrote:
> 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 

Probably another reference worth looking at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/

--Antony