samba - Mar 2008 - Errors: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence ...

Hello all,

I'm running samba server ?3.0.25b-1.el4_6.4 on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6). The server is set to be a part of the
Windows AD domain. The domain name is IIS. In the /var/log/samba/wb-IIS.log
I keep getting the messages similar to:

[2008/03/23 09:01:01, 3] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string_internal(265)
? ? convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence
(?`??*U)
[2008/03/23 09:01:01, 3] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string_internal(265)
? ?convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence
(??*U)

I've seen that questions about these messages have been already asked in
this list, but unfortunately I have not find any satisfactory answers. ?My
questions are:

- Where these messages are coming from?
- Are they are signs of some malfunction and what are the possible
consequences (the server is a ClearCase server)?

The relevant part of smb.conf is:
...
?dos charset = CP1255
?unix charset = UTF-8
?display charset = UTF-8
...

Any help/hint would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
        Alexander Shmugliakov

Hello all,

I have asked this question several days ago but go no answer. Please, can
somebody explain what can cause these messages?
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I'm running samba server ?3.0.25b-1.el4_6.4 on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6). The server is set to be a part of the
Windows AD domain. The domain name is IIS. In the /var/log/samba/wb-IIS.log
I keep getting the messages similar to:

[2008/03/23 09:01:01, 3] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string_internal(265)
? ? convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence
(?`??*U)
[2008/03/23 09:01:01, 3] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string_internal(265)
? ?convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence
(??*U)

I've seen that questions about these messages have been already asked in
this list, but unfortunately I have not find any satisfactory answers. ?My
questions are:

- Where these messages are coming from?
- Are they are signs of some malfunction and what are the possible
consequences (the server is a ClearCase server)?

The relevant part of smb.conf is:
...
?dos charset = CP1255
?unix charset = UTF-8
?display charset = UTF-8
...

Any help/hint would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
        Alexander Shmugliakov