[WBEL-users] Characters in Samba

Pavel Krebs pavel.krebs@varicad.com
Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:02:47 +0200


This problem is similar to Czech language. My smb.conf includes:

   dos charset = 852
   unix charset = UTF-8
   display charset = UTF-8

I use unicode under linux (LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8). :-)

Try this:
   dos charset = 860
   unix charset = ISO8859-1
   display charset = ISO8859-1

Pavel

Mario Gamito napsal(a):

>Hi,
>
>I have this Samba server.
>I'm from Portugal, so my users give names to their files containig
>characters like à, õ , í, etc.
>
>>From the Windows point of view, everything is ok, but in the Linux
>filesystem, those characters became a real mess.
>
>The problem is that i need to record CDs directly on the server, and i
>have a good deal of file and directory names all messed up.
>
>I've already tried using "unix charset = CP860" (860 is the portuguese
>codepage) in smb.conf, but no good.
>
>I've read the documentation, but got to no conclusion.
>
>In short, i'd like to when a user saves a file, let's say "olá.txt" in a
>Samba share, the file in the Linux filesystem is also called "olá.txt"
>and not "ol_?.txt" or something messy alike.
>
>A last info:
>
>[root@dori home]# echo $LANG
>en_US.ISO-8859-1
>[root@dori home]#
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Warm Regards,
>Mário Gamito
>
>_______________________________________________
>Whitebox-users mailing list
>Whitebox-users@beau.org
>http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
>  
>