[Samba] Disabling Unicode strings settings ??

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Nov 26 08:03:57 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:43 -0800, Ravi Natarajan wrote:
> I am using smbclient (samba 2.2.7a) to access a file share on a win2k3
> server. Looking at tcpdump, I see that the SMB requests are sent with
> the Unicode strings bit set to 1. I would appreciate if someone could
> tell me how to disable this bit ?( Is there any command line option or a
> settings in the smb.conf file ).

Why?  I think there was some way we had to do this (for testing), but
there should be no need to fallback to DOS codepages in production, it
will only cause pain...

Andrew Bartlett

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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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