samba - Jul 2004 - URGENT:problem with charset - migrating from 2.2.8a to 3.0.2a

Hello all

we have just carried out the above muigration . Our PDC is a Solaris 7 machine (
Sun E450 ) , our clients are
Windows 2000 machines.

When logging on to client PCs some users get messages about being unable to copy
various 'Favourites' .
Upon examination of the profiles ( which are stored on the PDC ) we noted
unusual characters in the
offending entries. When these entries were examined from a telnet session
initiated from a client PC
the characters appeared correctly , when examined directly on the server  ,
these characters were
displayed differently.

We have just added the following lines to smb.conf

       unix charset = ASCII
       dos charset = UTF8

But we are still getting the same messages at login , despite having restarted
the samba services.

Also , we are finding that users are loosing there network drives to a degree
which makes it
impossible for them to do there work.

Thanks in advance for any assistance

Dominic Clarke

www.foe.co.uk