samba - Jul 2005 - charset issue

Hi,

When i restart smbd/nmbd, all the files inside all shares change their 
names.
All the files are affected specially accent portuguese brazilian files. 
File names become a mess in whole samba server.

1) Has anyone seen this kind of samba server behavior?
2) Im using samba 3.0.4, is there a recognized bug? , if i change to 
latest version will this issue be solved?

Any suggestions are highly appreciated, thanks.

Cheers,
Juliano Krieger

> When i restart smbd/nmbd, all the files inside all shares change their 
> names.
> All the files are affected specially accent portuguese brazilian 
> files. File names become a mess in whole samba server.
You probably have a character set mis-match between Samba, Unix and/or 
the clients?

I use iso-8859-1 on Linux, and have "unix charset = ISO8859-1" in 
smb.conf. You may also need to define "dos charset = ..." in smb.conf,
but maybe not.

If you use UTF8 on the Linux side, you need "unix charset = UTF8" in 
smb.conf.

If you mount smb shares with "mount -t smbfs ..." you may also need to
specify charset options (iocharset= and codepage=).

Juliano,

If you were running Samba 2.x and now you restart on a version 3.x, that's 
the normal behaviour. All file names on the server are supposed to be coded 
in UTF-8. If you read the documentation you'll find that you have to:

- install convmv-1.07 (from http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/) 
    (untar somewhere, fix Makefile, make) 
    FIX (in my situation, it was on Solaris 2.6):
      diff Makefile.orig Makefile 
      11c11 
      <       install -m 755 convmv $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/ 
      --- 
      >       install -m 755 -c $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/convmv 
- run it
    (man on http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/)

HTH,
Pierre
PS: Read the docs, there is maybe another way to do it nowadays.

On 11 Jul 2005 at 10:00, juliano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When i restart smbd/nmbd, all the files inside all shares change their 
> names.
> All the files are affected specially accent portuguese brazilian files. 
> File names become a mess in whole samba server.
> 
> 1) Has anyone seen this kind of samba server behavior?
> 2) Im using samba 3.0.4, is there a recognized bug? , if i change to 
> latest version will this issue be solved?
> 
> Any suggestions are highly appreciated, thanks.
> 
> Cheers,
> Juliano Krieger
> 
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Mi wrote:
>
>
>> When i restart smbd/nmbd, all the files inside all shares change 
>> their names.
>> All the files are affected specially accent portuguese brazilian 
>> files. File names become a mess in whole samba server.
>
>
> You probably have a character set mis-match between Samba, Unix and/or 
> the clients?
>
> I use iso-8859-1 on Linux, and have "unix charset = ISO8859-1" in
> smb.conf. You may also need to define "dos charset = ..." in
smb.conf,
> but maybe not.
>
> If you use UTF8 on the Linux side, you need "unix charset = UTF8"
in
> smb.conf.

Hi,

Clients are default Windows XP keyborad type ABNT2, I suppose using 
unicode UTF8?

There is an charset mis-match below? Between Samba 3.0.4 and Linux RH 9.0?

Please, which values do you recommends for Portugues Brazil?

smb.conf
unix charset = LOCALE
display charset = UTF-8
dos charset = UTF-8


i18n
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat1-16"

Cheers, Juliano Krieger.