samba - Jan 2007 - Mapping a network drive to a Windows Drive Letter

We have this working.

however

Some developers edit files using "windows editors"  and when they then
copy
them to the  Windows Drive Letter  which is mapped to a Unix machine, the
resultant file  is full of  ^M  characters..... build breaks..... and so on

Until now we have been telling users to run "dos2unix"  beforehand, 
but
somebody told me  that "Samba"  can handle this if properly configured
?

Is this possible ?    If so can somebody please help me  ?

thanks


Stuart Jamieson
Software Configuration Manager
Tel : 020 8390 5000
DST International
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:37:18AM +0000, stuart.jamieson@dstintl.com
wrote:
> Some developers edit files using "windows editors"  and when they
then copy
> them to the  Windows Drive Letter  which is mapped to a Unix machine, the
> resultant file  is full of  ^M  characters..... build breaks..... and so on
> 
> Until now we have been telling users to run "dos2unix" 
beforehand,  but
> somebody told me  that "Samba"  can handle this if properly
configured ?
> 
> Is this possible ?    If so can somebody please help me  ?
No, sorry, Samba does not do this.

Volker

stuart.jamieson@dstintl.com schrieb:
> We have this working.
> 
> however
> 
> Some developers edit files using "windows editors"  and when they
then copy
> them to the  Windows Drive Letter  which is mapped to a Unix machine, the
> resultant file  is full of  ^M  characters..... build breaks..... and so on
> 
> Until now we have been telling users to run "dos2unix" 
beforehand,  but
> somebody told me  that "Samba"  can handle this if properly
configured ?
> 
> Is this possible ?    If so can somebody please help me  ?
This cannot be done. Samba would need to decide for every file whether it
is DOS text, that needs to be recoded, or a binary file, which must not be
touched.
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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:37, stuart.jamieson@dstintl.com wrote:
> Some developers edit files using "windows editors"  and when they
then copy
> them to the  Windows Drive Letter  which is mapped to a Unix machine, the
> resultant file  is full of  ^M  characters..... build breaks..... and so on
> 
> Until now we have been telling users to run "dos2unix" 
beforehand,  but
> somebody told me  that "Samba"  can handle this if properly
configured ?
> 
> Is this possible ?    If so can somebody please help me  ?
For Samba it's impossible. But you can use any editors with auto or manual 
detection line ends (i.e. UltraEdit - that's programmer's dream :-) )
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