samba - May 2012 - Problem joining to a Samba PDC (Probably caused by "unix charset")

Hello,

trying to join a Windows 7 64-Bit PC to a Samba PDC (3.6.5) fails with message
"Domain not found or no connection possible". After some testing I
found that
the problem was caused by the Samba-parameter "unix charset =
ISO8859-1".
When I start the nmbd with same config-file just without the "unix
charset" the
PC can join the domain (smbd runs with org. config-file. Samba runs on CentOS6
(en_US.UTF-8)).

Is this the expected behavior?

(At the moment I need ISO8859-1 because the files were saved with this charset).

Best regards,

Ralf

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:56:50PM +0200, Ralf Aumueller
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> trying to join a Windows 7 64-Bit PC to a Samba PDC (3.6.5) fails with
message
> "Domain not found or no connection possible". After some testing
I found that
> the problem was caused by the Samba-parameter "unix charset =
ISO8859-1".
> When I start the nmbd with same config-file just without the "unix
charset" the
> PC can join the domain (smbd runs with org. config-file. Samba runs on
CentOS6
> (en_US.UTF-8)).
> 
> Is this the expected behavior?
> 
> (At the moment I need ISO8859-1 because the files were saved with this
charset).
We think this is bug #8373

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8373

for which we have a patch currently undergoing test. With more testing it'll
be fixed in the next 3.6.x release.

Jeremy.