[Samba] Multiple encoding for file names

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Nov 25 18:13:07 GMT 2008


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:32:11PM +0100, Taoufik El Aoumari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Samba server (Samba 3.0.28 running on GNU/Linux CentOS 5 and  
> using an ext3 partition) which uses the "western europe" charset:
> unix charset = CP850
> display charset = CP850
> dos charset = CP850
>
> When a user wants to rename a file to a name with Russian characters, it  
> doesn't work and displays underscore characters instead.
>
> Is there a way to set up the Samba server to use multiple character  
> encoding?

Only if you change the backend encoding to utf8.

Jeremy.


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