Hi,

I'm running Archlinux on our server at school.
Everything great so far, but for one thing which caused me nightmares the last few days.

I'm living in belgium, so we need some special characters like the euro sign, the ¨ on top of the e and a, plus a few others.

At school we have two servers, a Winblows 2000 PDC and the arch server. the wintendo server has all the data on it. This data is mounted using samba on the arch server in /mnt/users.

This server has lots of users (read: lots of stupid users) who have lots of files. My intention is to use some kind of backup tool (ssyncd or rsync) to copy all this data onto the RAID-5 array on the arch server.

All goes well while copying until it finds filenames with special characters in it, so it shows me: file does not exist.

I have compiled the kernel with iso8859-15 nls support and the samba mount is done as follows:
mount -t smbfs //server/users /data/users -o username=root,password=mypass,codepage=iso8859-15,iocharset=iso8859-15

(the last two options of the mount I found in the manpage of smbmount, but I don't know if they matter)
the module for nls_iso8859-15 is loaded.


There is no X on the server and for example: the euro sign shows a ? (question mark) instead of the currency sign.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, cos I need to get this backup system running from 1 september on !

Thanks in advance,
Koen Calliauw