samba - Nov 2001 - Unicode? Diacriticals

I just got 2.2.2 setup on a Mac OSX machine using the Samba X from the
SourceForge project.  Testing showed great performance, but clients can't
access files with diacriticals in the filenames.  I couldn't find anything
on how to do this with the provided configuration tool, but wonder if
there's a way to do so directly in Samba. (?)

Also, we're a small shop and I'm mapping everyone to Guest to insure
everyone can share these files.  Aside from that security decision, are
there any issues with doing this?

Any thoughts much appreciated.

Tom (Samba/UNIX newbie)

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Thomas Moy
Harmonia Mundi USA

Thomas Moy wrote:
>I just got 2.2.2 setup on a Mac OSX machine using the Samba X from the
>SourceForge project.  Testing showed great performance, but clients
can't
>access files with diacriticals in the filenames.  I couldn't find
anything
>on how to do this with the provided configuration tool, but wonder if
>there's a way to do so directly in Samba. (?)
Mac OS X uses UTF-8 as its encoding method and uses Unicode 3.0 with
NFD as its character set.

NFD is one of Normalization Form:
  http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/

The implementation of "coding system = UTF8" on Samba 2.2.x is based
on Unicode 2.0 and does not know Normalization Form.

If you are interested in it, please try Samba 2.0.10 Japanese Edition
from http://ftp.samba.gr.jp/pub/samba-jp/samba-2.0.10-ja/, which has
Normalization Form feature.

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