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[park]

Hi,

I have recently bought and moved all of my data over to a couple of nas devices (terastation and linkstation). However, lots of my data contains japanese and sometimes other non-latin characters. I have noticed that it is impossible to delete files from the terastation if it contains non latin characters. Not sure how to delete the files, and moreover, not sure how I should name them, or if there is a tool that could do it on mass.

I'm thinking that i could give latin character based names to all the files in media center manually and then do a "rename from properties" but that is looking like a lot of work.

Any advice from other users of network based storage?

Thanks,
Bri

[newsposter]

use a decent NAS that can deal with double-byte character sets.........

[maxxsid]

Any suggestions on this?
I just tried D-link DNS-323 and bumped into the same ptoblem.

use a decent NAS that can deal with double-byte character sets.........

[JimH]

Did you check the supplier of the drive?

If I recall correctly, this may be a Samba bug that was fixed.

[maxxsid]

I did check. It's a new product and I guess their firmware is not mature enough. They just release a new version of firmware (1.02) which fixed SOME issues but introduced other. For example - it removes SOME capitalized characters from the filename. I red about other NAS units (buffalo, infrant) a little and found that most of them have similar issues with foreign/accented characters..
I just sold my home built raid server which was working perfectly (Win XP) hoping to save some floor space with a brand name nas... gotta build a new one..

Did you check the supplier of the drive?

If I recall correctly, this may be a Samba bug that was fixed.

[park]

I'm still struggling with this problem.

A mac on the same network, running itunes, will automatically name files to be just a bunch of single underscores, when copying files onto the network drive.

Could MC do something like this? I'd rather have useless filenames than files that cant be accessed or deleted.

[park]

Still struggling with this one. Searched the net some more and someone else seems to think that it isnt a problem for people who have a japanese OS installed. It's only a problem for people who use a western WinXP with Japanese language support installed. He seemed to think it might be related to samba. I have seen hacked firmware for the terastation that contains NFS. Could someone, more knowledgeable than myself about networking, let me know, before I start backing up 1tb of data and trying hacked firmwares, whether NFS might make a difference in handling double byte character files.

Thanks a lot,
Bri

[newsposter]

Depends on what version of NFS.  NFS v3 with recent patches handles double-byte locales just fine.