samba - Mar 2001 - codepage & character set

Hi,

I migrated files from an existing NT fileserver to a new samba server.
Unfortunately I did not make my homework properly and forget to set
"codepage" and "character set" in the global section. Bit
this was necessary
for the
f#*?$? German 'Umlaute' like ? ,? ,?.
Now my dilemma is the following:
-Files that I moved are shown in Unix correctly with ?,? etc.
-In NT explorer there is an ASCII symbol instead. Example: In Unix >Vertr?ge
; in NT >Vert?ge.

-Newly created files are shown correctly in NT but with ASCII codes in Unix.

If I would add the codepage = 850 and character set = ISO8859-1 in smb.conf,
I would see the older files correctly in Unix & NT, with Umlaut ?,? or ?,
but all files that are in NT already renamed or newly created and contain an
'Umlaut' disappear in Explorer.

Does Anybody have an Idea how I get out of this? I can't redo the whole job,
we are talking about 100GB.

Thank you
Martin

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Martin Foerster wrote:
> Does Anybody have an Idea how I get out of this? I can't redo the whole
job,
> we are talking about 100GB.
Write a script/program to find all files with strange chars (the ones
renamed after the move from the NT) and rename them on the unix side to
the proper local ???...

I think you will find that the values on the unix side are the same bad
value for each char, like:
	x maps to ?	(except that x isn't a "bad" char)
	y maps to ?
	...

Stop samba
Run the script/program
Fix the smb.conf to have codepage settings
Start samba


Some study here may help understanding what went where ...
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html

/Urban