[Samba] Caracteres ñ á é ó ú en archives names not are reading

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:26, Ed Holden wrote:
> A translation, for anyone who knows the answer ...
> 
> 
> We've migrated from Samba 2.x to version 3 and have a problem wherein 
> Windows clients can't see files that contain the characters ñ, á, é, í, 
> ó, or ú.  This is a serious problem because we have a lot of files 
> containing these letters.
> 
> Is there any way to solve this?

This is the 'unix charset' problem.  You have two options:

Convert the filenames on the server to UTF8

or

Set the unix charset to what your clients were using as their DOS
charset (for example, CP850).  

If you can manage it, then converting the filenames is a much better
option - as UTF8 can represent all possible unicode values that can
occour in CIFS.  Bad things happen when we cannot convert names :-(

But changing the 'unix charset' is easier.  

Andrew Bartlett

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