DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

frodo wrote:

Which locale do you use in Linux?

UTF8?

Good idea with  the locale! It seems to be set by default to: en_US.UTF-8

frodo wrote:

Try

export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1

and then ls

I tried it, unfortunately it didn't worked:
[loic@neumann ~]$ export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1
[loic@neumann ~]$ls /mnt/nas/
  hmm .txt  ?h?.txt  PICT3303.JPG
[loic@neumann ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NAME="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1

Even if I change LANG to de_DE.ISO-8859-1, still no luck so far.

Thanks,
Loic.

You can enable syslog if you setup the debian environment.

Have you used the EasySearch utility to set your locale on the DNS?

Which firmware level do you use?

Last edited by frodo (2007-06-25 23:34:12)

Now, I've got the confirmation that the filename are stored using CP850:

# ls /mnt/nas | iconv -f CP850
essai_ÖÄ.txt
Für E-Mail
ähö.txt
PICT3303.JPG

Any ideas?

TIA,
Loic.

fonz wrote:

Have you tried the codepage option? Google has a few examples you could try:
Also check that your kernel actually supports cp850 and iso8859-1 (try modprobe cp850 or modprobe iso8859-1).

Yes. I have tried to mount with cp850:

# mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=cp850,user=antje%xxx //192.168.xx.xx/Volume_1/LaptopAntje /mnt/nas

# /sbin/lsmod | grep nls
nls_cp850               5185  0
nls_iso8859_1           4417  2
nls_utf8                2369  0

# ls /mnt/nas
essai_??.txt     PICT3303.JPG 
F?r E-Mail    ?h?.txt

I believe that the problem isn't really the mount option. But the fact that the name are stored using CP850 instead of ISO-8859-1.  The output are garbaged, because the terminal is expecting ISO-8859-1 encoding, not CP850.

As of my understanding, the global option "character set" and "client code page" in smb.conf should exactly define that mapping, and filenames should be stored on the disks using ISO-8859-1. 

Cheers,
Loic.

I verified today what's really stored on the EXT2, by pulling one of the disk out, using an USB enclosure and mounting the drive from my Linux system.

I could clearly see that there the filenames are indeed stored using CP850 encoding. I raised a ticket with D-Link: 1138664.

In the meanwhile, did someone succeed in exchanging files with non english characters in the name between a Windows based and a Linux based system? Could someone verifies which encoding is used for the filename by reading directly one of the disk? That would be great! 

I am really disappointed. I must say, the DNS-323 could be a great piece of technology. I don't mind having to tinker in order to get it running. And I like the openness you can have with the fun_plug. 

But if I can't solve this problem, I am afraid that I will have to return the unit.

Thanks,
Loic.

Hi everybody,

just to close this thread: it's seems that the forthcoming FW 1.04 is what I'm looking for, as UTF-8 encoding is used  for filenames. This will remove all the difficulties I was facing so far...

I'd like to note the excellent support offered by D-Link Germany on this story. I logged the issue through the Web Interface of their service portal. And I got fast, competant answers to my questions. I know that not everybody can share that experience with the D-Link  support, so I think it's worth mentioning.

Thanks everyone who helped!

Cheers,
Loïc.