How to mount via cifs non-unicode samba sever with character set conversion?

Question

in old times of smbfs I use codepage and iocharset options, but cifs does not support codepage. What I can do?

Answer 1

I suppose your problem is with the file-names showing up with funny characters for an NTFS share.

According to the NTFS FAQ, the mount command supports the iocharset parameter for NTFS. You should pay particular attention to section 4 and try the mount commands given there.

In another article : smbfs & cifs; accentuated characters; solved, the author proposes three possibilities for mounting such shares :

mount //192.168.15.123/a /home/b/c -t cifs -o username=d,password=e,uid=f,gid=g,iocharset=utf8
mount //192.168.15.123/a /home/b/c -t cifs -o username=d,password=e,uid=f,gid=g,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp437
mount //192.168.15.123/a /home/b/c -t cifs -o username=d,password=e,uid=f,gid=g,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850

For more info, the above article describes the author's consecutive tries and logic, until he got this working for him.