samba - May 2002 - Samba 3.0 pre 17, character set

Hi!

I have searched the net, but I finally didn't find an answer. I have a Samba
TNG installation here, with some problems, and I would really like to
replace it with 3.0 now (2.2 is missing some important functionality I need, so
I
would like to try the "unstable" 3.0).

I compiled and installed, it works fine as pdc, but I don't get some
national special characters (German umlauts in my case). I found some hints
about
the undocumented dos / unix / display charsets, but NOWHERE anything explaining
these new keywords in smb.conf. I have iconv installed, and I assume that on
the Linux-side, 8859-1 has been used so far (is there a way to determine
this???).

What do I need if I have ISO_8859-1 on the Windows 2000 clients as well? Do
I need all three parameters? And there is some strange behaviour, when I
tried the charset-parameters, I could use the dos charset parameter, but if I
set
the unix charset parameter, I get a "no interfaces found" error (with
or w/o
bind interfaces only).

So, it would be great to get some hints about this changed functionality in
the 3.0-Samba-line. Thanks in advance, CU,

Lars O. Grobe.

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On Tue, 14 May 2002 grobe@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have searched the net, but I finally didn't find an answer. I have a
Samba
> TNG installation here, with some problems, and I would really like to
> replace it with 3.0 now (2.2 is missing some important functionality I
need, so I
> would like to try the "unstable" 3.0).
> 
> I compiled and installed, it works fine as pdc, but I don't get some
> national special characters (German umlauts in my case). I found some hints
about
> the undocumented dos / unix / display charsets, but NOWHERE anything
explaining
> these new keywords in smb.conf. I have iconv installed, and I assume that
on
> the Linux-side, 8859-1 has been used so far (is there a way to determine
> this???).
Take it up with the developers on samba-technical and get them to fix the 
man pages :-)  A little peer pressure ere would be a good thing :-)








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