Quandary about Samba media repository

Hi folks,
I have recently tried to make my den greener by turning devices off when not in use. I run an environment with Mac, Linux, and Windows. I managed to offload all my server functions either to my web host or to network devices I can turn off when not in use except for my media storage, which needs to be available from all three platforms.
Currently I have the media storage on my Ubuntu Linux desktop system, shared using Samba. However, there are a number of albums that don't show up in iTunes because of accented characters. For instance, take Motorhead with the umlaut on the second "o". I could butcher the stored names to fit, but I'd rather not. When I look at these directories natively on my Linux box, they're there and I can play the music with no problem. However, when I go into Finder on the Mac, I see the "Motorhead" directory, but when I click on it, it disappears - weird. I have no difficulty seeing or playing any of these files from Windows or my Linux laptop, so this appears to be some kind of client-side problem. I have no problem with any of the other files or directories on this share from any platform.
The plot thickens. For Christmas, I got a new 160Gb iPod to replace my 30 Gb iPod that was just about full. As it happens, the 40 Gb drive I'm using for storage is just about full, too. So I'm almost immediately in the market for about 160 Gb of RAID 1 storage . I can see three choices:
Ideally, it would be useful if I could have it be storage I can attach to any of my systems rather than having to fire up a server as well as the system I am using, so I'm thinking maybe USB2 or Firewire storage I can shlep around. Of course, it would need to have a file system that was readable from all three platforms, which poses a bit of a problem, I think. Also, using a removable drive with a laptop would presumably entail plugging it in when I want to use it, which might be awkward.
Alternatively, I could use a network storage device that I could just flick on when I want to access music or movies. However, whatever I use would need to be readily accessible from all three platforms, which poses challenges. The things I'm seeing at Best Buy are geared toward Windows, using some kind of proprietary transparent local caching arrangement. Obviously, anything using SMB networking will still face the same challenges I've got today but at least it will just be there, where right now it is a bit of a fussy manual process logging in and getting the drive mounted on Ubuntu.
Another option is to continue with the current approach and just RAID a pair of big SATA drives on my Linux box, which supports it. However, I would first need to make sure I could access all of the music, regardless of the characters used in file or directory names, even from the Mac. So I've got to figure out the filename problem before I can move and, since I've got less than 1 Gb left on the current drive, it is getting pretty urgent.
Does anybody have any suggestions on resolving the current problem with names or on what technology to focus on for either of the other approaches?
RalphM

Adding more information after further research...
It occurred to me that I hadn't gone quite as far as I might on my Linux laptop. I hadn't actually tried to mount the share as a filesystem. So I dug into that and found a couple of things that might be relevant.
There are apparently two implementation of an SMB client mount - one, smbfs, hasn't been maintained for a while, while the newer one, cifs, is VFS-based. Playing around with it, I got very similar results to what I was seeing on the Mac mounting with -t smbfs. However, I was able to play music from the Motorhead folder cleanly using cifs, provided I supplied the iocharset=utf8 option on the -t cifs mount. (I did not try to see if the smbfs client supported that option, though.)
I don't know what the Mac is using under the covers for mounting SMB clients, smbfs or cifs. I am a little worried that because it is VFS-based, cifs may not be entirely portable to Darwin/FreeBSD, so I could be out of luck. On the other hand, if they are using CIFS, it could just be a matter of forcing the right option on the mount. Does anybody know? Does anybody know how Leopard is handling mounts under the covers, so I could look at the configuration files to figure it out?
I'm really a little frustrated with the networking on this system. I've got NFS shares for the way I had things configured before that I can't figure out how to shut off. The tools I used for digging under the covers before seem to be gone and the arrangement of the file system has changed - I no longer find the familar Unix folder names for half the stuff. When I try to specify WINS settings through the Network item on System Preferences, it won't persist the workgroup I give it but it doesn't give me any other place to specify it either, so it comes up in WORKGROUP where everything else in the lab comes up under MACKSOFT. None of this is particularly relevant to the problem at hand, but networking seems to be the place I'm spending the most "fiddle time" on an otherwise well-behaved and self-contained system.
Ralph

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