Use UTF-8 chars in CIFS-Share comments (German Umlauts)

you mean using an Umlaut in the comment field of creating a new CIFS share ?

works for me fine with Celerra Manager on 5.6.39 and IE6

Of course share names itself right now are restricted to ASCI (but that will change)

sorry - dont know. dont have a 5.5 system readily available

there are quite some differences between 5.5 and 5.6 under the covers

To be frank I dont know if Umlaut for share comments are actually supported.
The help doesnt say anything about or against it.
All I could see that the techincal notes say that for CIFS server comments only ASCII is supported

They do look a bit funny in the CLI:
[nasadmin@ns20 ~]$ server_export server_2 -P cifs -l
server_2 :
share "test123" "/fs2" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=FS_NS20 comment="mit Umläuten"
while the GUI says "mit Umläuten"

If its really bothering you please open a service request

Yes, putting them only in the Comment. Could this be an NAS 5.5 issue?

Umlauts set with CLI are displayed as cryptic chars in the Web-GUI. Could it be, that Celerra Manager did not send any encoding information to the browser?
Or is this a Java issue?

just to clarify: in my environment this is swaped. The CLI works with umlauts, the Celerra web-gui does not display them properly.

Hmmh, have you changed something on your control station so that Umlauts work ?

when I try to create a share I get:

[nasadmin@ns20 ~]$ server_export server_2 -Protocol cifs -name test123 -option netbios=FS_NS20 -comment "nochma Umläute " /fs2
Error 2101: Input must consist of ASCII or UTF-8 characters.

No, i only use an UTF-8 aware terminal to connect. Umlauts entered in CLI comment are shown correct by Windows clients. Funny, is'nt it?

Support for multi-byte characters in the share name, share comment, tree quota path, and tree quota comment fields in Celerra Manager is in NAS 5.6 40

5.6.40.3 is now released for new installs