samba - Nov 2002 - Samba and non-ASCII characters

Hi,

I'm have my first Samba PDC 2.2.6 up and running (great!) but I have a
problem with *some* non-ASCII characters.

Here are some details:

- Windows (Win98, Win2k and WinXP) clients use Portuguese-Brazillian (pt-BR)
as language.
- Linux distribuition: Mandrake 9.0 with the latest updates (from
MandrakeSoft) and Portuguese-Brazillian support.
- 'chcp' from a command prompt give me: Active code page = 850
- Some relevant options in my smb.conf:
  client code page = 850
  character set = ISO8859-1
  default case = lower
  preserve case = yes
  case sensitive = no
  short preserve case = yes

I'm logged as root in my Linux box and as administrator in my NT server box
and smbmounted a share of my interest. I'm just trying to copy some folders
from NT to Linux. Now my real problem:

I can't access a directory or file named 'Atualiza??o' or
'?.doc' for
example. A ls or cp command give me 'No such file or directory' error
message. If I rename them (server-side) to 'Atualiza?ao' or
'Atualiza??o',
etc. I can
access them. Any other file or directory I can access w/o a problem.

Have you experienced something like that ? Probably I'm doing a mistake
somewhere...

Thanks.

---
Fabio Lindner

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Fabio Lindner wrote:
> I can't access a directory or file named 'Atualiza??o' or
'?.doc' for
> example. A ls or cp command give me 'No such file or directory'
error
> message. If I rename them (server-side) to 'Atualiza?ao' or
'Atualiza??o',
> etc. I can
> access them. Any other file or directory I can access w/o a problem.
The smb.conf settings for code page/charset are not used by smbfs.
Instead the kernel settings are used, which can be overridden by the
iocharset and codepage options to smbmount.

Since some chars work and others do not it is possible that you have
configured it to use one code page but the server is returning data in
another code page.

It's also possible that the server isn't capable of mapping these chars
into the right codepage (even if there is a matching char in it). You can
check this if you run ethereal and see which bytes it is sending.

If the server is sending "Atualiza??o" as "Atualiza?ao" but
refuses to
understand the name "Atualiza?ao", there is nothing smbfs can do about
it...


Finally, if you can't get it to work by playing with the codepage settings
you can enable unicode using kernel and samba patches from this page:

http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html

/Urban