VDR and Samba charset conversion - vdr

19 Oct 2006


      Hi,
I'm struggling with charset conversion using Samba and VDR.
The Samba server is version 3.0.22 (on Gentoo).
Locales are:
GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
   LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8
   LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
   LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
   LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
   LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8
   LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
   LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8
   LC_NAME=en_US.utf8
   LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8
   LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8
   LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8
   LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
In smb.conf I've added
dos charset          = UTF8
  unix charset         = UTF8
  display charset      = UTF8
The Samba server should work with all NT4/XP-based based Windoze clients,
MacOS 10.x- and Linux clients using de_DE.utf8 charset.
The Problem is the VDR-Box. It's the Minidvblinux distribution with
samba-client-2.2.3a-1. As there are no environment variables for charset I
assume it uses standard POSIX/C. I've tried different iocharset and
codepage options for smbmount on the MLD-VDR box, but still get weird
chars.
Thanx for any hint how to configure Samba/smbmount
Renne