I have a windows share which I would like to access from my linux machine. Some of the files have chinese filenames.

When I use nautilus to connect e.g. //dan/moses
I can connect and see the chinese filenames.

However, when I try to mount it from fstab, using
//dan/moses /mnt smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredential,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850,dmask=0777,fmask=0666,umask=000 0 0

I cannot see those filenames... they appear as something like "s??.txt"

If I create the file using this mnt, then from windows or nautilus, it appears as weird characters like "ç¥?æ?¯æ??.txt"

Does anyone know how nautilus mounts the share? Or does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get around this problem? Thanks

Does that line if fstab helps you? I cannot understand how does it works If you mount that with 'mount' command, so you should assign CIFS in fstab instead of SMBFS. Then you'll get full access to mount options, like codepage and iocharset.

Thanks Ygrex - using CIFS as the mount option works - the Chinese filenames display correct.

However, now I have another problem - with the following:
//dan/moses /mnt cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredential,iocharset=utf8,dmode=0777,fmode=0666,uid=1000 0 0

When I create a new file, the permission is set to
-rw-r--r--
however, the user is not me, but a number, so I don't have access to that file...
Are there a way to force the mode of a created file to 666?

Firstly, iocharset=utf8 does not seems to me fine. I suppose you'll get the same result without this option at all.
For in vfat there's 'utf8' is a distinct option (so 'utf8' instead of 'iocharset=utf8').

Concerning permissions, it seems there's no way to force them.

Then would you know how nautilus makes the connection? Because if I open and edit a file through nautilus (provided the program supports it like OpenOffice), then the permission seems fine.

may be it also adds 'ro' option?

UTF might not have encoding for chinese symbols (at a guess) try researching other ones.

Also you need to set a mask at mount time for the drive, to create files with the correct permissions (NTFS and FAT cannot support Unix permissions).

Lastly you could set your user id to the same as the files for the windows partition, or create another user, with that id for the sole purpose of copying files over.