Peace on you all, This is my first post, I'm new to linux, about 3 weeks ago I first installed mandriva 2007, and am currently exploring !!! I have a problem with my arabic songs (the files itself have a arabic names), they're on a windows partition created by the windows "root" , and when i try to access them with mandriva they work fine but the arabic letters of the song name and the artist's name within the player are strange undecoded letters, although in the konqueror for example the same files' names appear correctly, which puts me to a great confusion, and when i try to change the names manually (edit) the files again, it tells me I don't have permission, I tried to change permission from windows and make it public for everyone but still it won't work and i'm not allowed to change from linux, only works when i copy the files to linux and start changing them !! Any suggestions ??
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This sounds like an ntfs
This sounds like an ntfs partition, which are usually mounted read only. If they are mounted rw users by default have read only permissions.
Make sure the partition is mounted read and write, with a driver that supports it. Does anyone know the availability of ntfs-3g on mandriva 2007 ?
Next you could play with the "uid" mount option by setting it to your user's uid.
As to the arabic characters issue, what audio player is it? It sounds like a font choice issue.
arabic data (file name, artist, song name) in a messed symbols
Some media players have no utf8 support,it has nothing to do with the filesystem.
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I think only xmms has
I think only xmms has problems with UTF8 filename encoding.
First you have to make sure that your filesystem is mounted the right way. Please paste the output of the mount command.
Second make sure you have the right fonts to display arabic characters ( letters not people ). You can copy fonts from your windows installation. I think it is possible to do this directly from mandriva's control center.
Last but not least, ntfs-3g is a fuse based ntfs driver, that has proven to be more usable and stable than both the inkernel and captive drivers. However, a backup is always welcome, as it prevents lost data for any reasons.
Although I don't think
Although I don't think recent ntfs allows native filename encoding, and also windows xp converts natively encoded filesystems automatically ( according to my testing ), your ntfs filesystem could be different.
This article might shed some light on how to convert your filenames to UTF8 encoding ( note : names not contents as iconv would do ).
as you can see you have 4
as you can see you have 4 windows partitions three of which are ntfs and one is fat32.
Your ntfs partitions are mount read only (ro) so no wonder you can't write to them.
I think you also need the utf8 option for reading the filenames.
So I would try to do the following as root:
and see if it fixes your problems.