On 2003-07-27 at 16:30 +0900 David Blomber sent off:

I am using SuSE 8.2 Pro fully patched. I tried to view directories on other machines but as soon as I get to a windows based directory with Japanese titled files and subdirectories I get an error message (with a lot of underlines and sometimes a file extension, saying the file does not exist) but the directory contents are never displayed.

how is your samba server configured? By default Samba 2.x saves file files in the encoding of the clients, e.g. cp850 for western european countries. I don't know the cp of japanese win* clients (cp936 ??). You cannot get the Japanese files be correctly displayed on the Linux server and on the clients. Samba 2.x has no multibyte support. If you need to use the files on the Linux server you might want to convert the files files with convmv (Mike did an RPM for it: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-noarch/) from the windows charset (whatever that is...) to your currect locale's charset, I assume UTF-8. If you're brave you might also try to switch to samba3. Samba3 per default maps to UTF-8 filenames on the server side. That way Samba you can view every file now on every client and also on the server in the right way. You can find Samba3 RPMs for SuSE 8.2 under ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/gd/8.2-i386/ Again if you switch to Samba3 and don't specify a different encoding you have to convert the file names to utf-8 using convmv, which is quite painless. Bjoern