Status of NetApp joining Samba PDC

[Danny Braniss]

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:28:59AM -0800, Tim Potter wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:35:31AM -0800, Tim Potter wrote:
> > 
> > > > I've included at the end of this e-mail the setup proces on the NetApp, the
> > > > log from the NetApp when trying to connect to the Samba PDC (JOHANSEN)
> > > > server and also included the samba log (sverdrup is the name of the NetApp).
> > > 
> > > Can you send me (privately) a level 10 debug log?  That is, put 'debug
> > > level = 10' in smb.conf and restart Samba.
> > 
> > For anyone who is interested the problem was that Samba 2.2 doesn't
> > support Unicode, and the Netapp was ignoring the "use ASCII" flag that
> > Samba was setting and sending Unicode filenames anyway.
> > 
> > A workaround was to use one of the Samba 3.0 alpha releases which
> > supports Unicode SMBs.
> 
> Yeah, it doesn't help anyone who is using the 2.2.x releases
> though. It's definately a NetApp bug, you should bug them to
> fix it.
> 
> Jeremy.

i've tried, but the latest info i got was, and don't quote me:
	netapp signed an agreement with MS so that only MS's PDC will work.

so if the solution is 3.0 that is great news!

danny