Fix funky Samba filenames
While I was ssh’ed into my file server, I noticed that the files on my Samba shares were messed up – for example, “Béla Fleck and the Flecktones” would appear as “Béla Fleck and the Flecktones” – though everything was OK when looking at the shares as a client. After spending a lot of time messing around with code pages and character sets in my smb.conf, e.g.
[global]
dos charset = CP850
unix charset = iso8859-1
display charset = LOCALE
I finally ran across an old mailing list posting that told me the secret: set my terminal to UTF-8 (to match the default character set of my Ubuntu server). Duh. I went into my PuTTY settings (yes, I was in Windows) and changed it from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. Muuuch better. Forget that smb.conf stuff.