samba - Feb 1999 - Umlaute and Sharing with both SAMBA and Helios Ethershare.

Hi all

I have samba 1.9.18 and 2.0.2 shares which are also shared to the
macintosh world with Helios ethershare running under Solaris 2.5.1 and
2.6. I can create files and directories with the German special
characters "umlaute" and "sz" with either client. My problem
is that the
macintoshes can't access directories created from the PCs whose name
contains special characters and vice versa.

I have had a look at the docu, but from what i can see i can only define
one code page per share which says which code page the client uses but
we have clients using different code pages.

I'm all for limiting the shares to a-z A-Z and 1-9 but as the
directories can be seen ok form the clients they were created by I need
to try to find a solution.

Any suggestions.

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Colin

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Colin Slade wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have samba 1.9.18 and 2.0.2 shares which are also shared to the
> macintosh world with Helios ethershare running under Solaris 2.5.1 and
> 2.6. I can create files and directories with the German special
> characters "umlaute" and "sz" with either client. My
problem is that the
> macintoshes can't access directories created from the PCs whose name
> contains special characters and vice versa.
> 
I have a similiar problem here (using 1.9.18 too).
Files and directories containing these "umlauts" *can* be created by
our
WIN95 clients ... but they *cannot* be accessed by the WIN95 clients!
Whereas our NT3.5 client can access these files!

I know, this info will not help you much further - but (at least to my
problem) the WIN95 PC?s seem to create this effect, because on NT all
seems to work ok.
Hope this will lead you to the solution.

best regards
j?rgen anzer
(juergen anzer)


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