Is there any way to make samba use whatever the default charset was on samba 2.2.x (like 2.2.3?). I've just upgraded to samba 3 and just about every second file displays incorrectly on my windows clients and most of them refuse to open because of this. THis is causing absolute chaos to the point where I (an avid windows hater) am starting to look at reload all the servers in question with w2k server. I've played around with "dos charset", "unix charset" and "display charset" but have no luck. I have no clue what this should be set to to make this work like they did before with samba 2.2.3 and don't even have a clue what options I can choose from - nothing in the man page except one example! Any help, PLEASE? Andr? de Koning IT Manager Softline VIP Payroll Tel: +27 12 420 7000 andre@vippayroll.co.za
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:10, Andre de Koning wrote:> Is there any way to make samba use whatever the default charset was on samba > 2.2.x (like 2.2.3?).Set the unix charset to the charset your clients are using. E.g. unix charset = CP850 and also make sure you dos charset is set correctly. However, you should rather try to convert the filenames to the correct charset.> I've just upgraded to samba 3 and just about every second file displays > incorrectly on my windows clients and most of them refuse to open because of > this. THis is causing absolute chaos to the point where I (an avid windows > hater) am starting to look at reload all the servers in question with w2k > server. > > I've played around with "dos charset", "unix charset" and "display charset" > but have no luck. I have no clue what this should be set to to make this > work like they did before with samba 2.2.3 and don't even have a clue what > options I can choose from - nothing in the man page except one example!Read the Unicode chapter in the Samba HOWTO Collection for details about these options. This chapter also contains a link to a utility that can convert your filenames to the correct unix charset. Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij - http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20031008/7ebe23a0/attachment.bin
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Andre de Koning wrote:> Is there any way to make samba use whatever the default charset was on samba > 2.2.x (like 2.2.3?). > > I've just upgraded to samba 3 and just about every second file displays > incorrectly on my windows clients and most of them refuse to open because of > this. THis is causing absolute chaos to the point where I (an avid windows > hater) am starting to look at reload all the servers in question with w2k > server. > > I've played around with "dos charset", "unix charset" and "display charset" > but have no luck. I have no clue what this should be set to to make this > work like they did before with samba 2.2.3 and don't even have a clue what > options I can choose from - nothing in the man page except one example! > > Any help, PLEASE?Better late than never I hope. unix charset = ISO8859-1 dos charset = CP850 would be the defaults 2.2.x used. Jeremy.