NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have been a happy user of NASLite for some years now, however recently I have converted over to Ubuntu from Windows XP though I am still a Linux novice.

I have some files which contain accented characters in their filename (they are not unicode) but latin characters such as é.

Under Windows XP accessing via the Samba shares all is OK. As is accessing these files under Ubuntu using Samba. However if I mount the shares using NFS these accented characters are converted into an black diamond character with a question mark in them. Why is this?

If I create a file under Ubuntu which contains one of these characters it will read and write to NASLite via NFS without issue.

I guess I don't really know where the problem lies, is it Ubuntu, NASLite or limitations of the different protocols and character translations withing them.

I would appreciate any information or help!

Thanks

Paul

I think samba translates filenames somehow but not sure. That would explain the discrepancy through NFS. You can look at it through FTP and see what's up. You can also use samba from Ubuntu if that solves the problem.

Well I eventually cracked it but still have a bit more to understand regarding charsets. If I add the following line to my fstab file



The share mounts OK and does all the character translation automatically....sadly I found this out the brute force way (trying numerous things I found on Google) but it gets me going but I would like to understand why I cannot get this going on NFS or indeed FTP or RSYNC.

Having said all that my ideal would be for NASLite to support unicode filenames also, but you cannot have everything!