I've plugged a hard drive into my Vigor 2710VN, and have a user via the web admin front-end.
I can connect to the hard drive via FTP from Windows and Linux.
I can connect to the hard drive via SMB from Windows.

When I try to connect from Linux (Ubuntu Studio 12LTS), I get permission denied.
I've managed to track this down to the password protocol, and it is necessary to add the following to the [global] seciton of smb.conf:

Code:

client NTLMv2 auth = no

Now comes the strange bit!

If I access the drive through the Linux file browser, I never see any files, but if I create one, I can see it through the web admin file browser, just not in Linux, and if I try to re-create it on Linux, it gives me an error, because it already exists, even though I see nothing.

If I mount the drive through /etc/fstab:

Code:

//192.168.1.1/steve /home/steve/vigor cifs noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/steve/credentials/vigor.smb 0 0

I see chinese characters when I navigate the file system:

Code:

total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 steve steve 0 Nov 30 1979 . drwxr-xr-x 88 steve steve 12288 Mar 8 11:03 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 steve steve 0 Nov 30 1979 ??? root@Crunchie:/home/steve/vigor# cd backup root@Crunchie:/home/steve/vigor/backup# ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 steve steve 0 Nov 30 1979 . drwxr-xr-x 2 steve steve 0 Nov 30 1979 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 steve steve 0 Nov 30 1979 ???? drwxr-xr-x 2 steve steve 0 Nov 30 1979 ?? root@Crunchie:/home/steve/vigor/backup#

Note that the directory shows in chinese, yet I can still cd into it using its real name.

I am assuming that the chinese is something to do with code pages / fonts, but I am not clear as to which part of the system is defining this.

Another oddity is that when I connect using smbclient, apart from the filenames showing in chinese again, the OS is shown in chinese too.

Please can somebody help point me in the right direction:

Is the server configured for a chinese charset, and windows ignores it?
Do I need to configure the charset on the client, and if so, how (client code page and client charset seem to be ignored)?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

I can confirm this behaviour, especially the hexadecimal (Chinese?) character codes in filenames using a Debian 7.5 Samba client. Don't know of any solution though.