When there are files with accented letters, and tar is run in the directory whilst using smbclient by calling the files directly, it works fine. If calling files using wildcards: ie. tar -c foo.tar * tar packs both the correct filenames and same files with their filenames garbled, producing double output for each filename with accented characters.
Please give us a concrete example and a how-to-reproduce all this.
i'm not having luck reproducing this. it may have been due to the fact that there were some cp850 files in there that were causing problems.