samba - May 2002 - charset problems on mixed network

hi there,

i setup a samba server (actually two) on a redhat
box:

[root@SALOMON root]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)

[root@SALOMON samba]# uname -a
Linux SALOMON 2.4.9-31 #1 Tue Feb 26 07:11:02 EST 2002 i686 unknown

[root@SALOMON root]# smbd -V       
Version 2.2.4

and i am having the following problems:

i need the files that are shared to have german
umlauts, hence i need support for iso8859-1
in samba. what i have is:

character set = iso8859-1
client code page = 850

this works perfectly fine for the windows machines,
they see the files correctly, can create files
correctly and the files are created correctly
on the filesystem. but if i do a smbmount (or rather
mount -t smbff) from another linux machine (this case
a redhat 6.2 box with some 2.2.x kernel) it shows
the umlauts as ? and creates files wrong.
if i removethe above two options from smb.conf it
works fine in linux, but not anymore in windows.
i tried to fiddle around with include and %a
a bit, but that didnt work out either.

man smbmount has something calles iocharset for
2.4.x kernels, is that what i need? there has
to be some way...

thanks in advance,
stephan

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On Mon, 27 May 2002, Stephan Maihoefer wrote:
> on the filesystem. but if i do a smbmount (or rather
> mount -t smbff) from another linux machine (this case
> a redhat 6.2 box with some 2.2.x kernel) it shows
> the umlauts as ? and creates files wrong.
> if i removethe above two options from smb.conf it
> works fine in linux, but not anymore in windows.
> i tried to fiddle around with include and %a
> a bit, but that didnt work out either.
> 
> man smbmount has something calles iocharset for
> 2.4.x kernels, is that what i need? there has
> to be some way...
You need to specify the kernel nls modules to use in some form. For 2.4
you can set it at mount time with the iocharset and codepage options, for
2.2 you can only set it when you configure the kernel at compile time.

For a 2.2 machine you also need a recent enough 2.2 (2.2.18 or later).

/Urban